Inspirational Quotes
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
Many hands make light work.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
You become what you think about.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Old love does not rust.
I assume everybody thinks they're a top-five quarterback. I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
I do not believe in styles anymore. I do not believe that there is such a thing as the Chinese way of fighting or the Japanese way of fighting, or any other way of fighting, because unless a human being has three arms and four legs, there can be no different form of fighting. To me, ultimately, martial art means honestly expressing yourself.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.