Inspirational Quotes
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
Faith can move mountains.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
We come to beginnings only at the end.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Remove failure as an option.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
After your jump, the net appears.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
Happiness is a state of activity.