Inspirational Quotes
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
Every human heart is human.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
Ability is sexless.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
Love conquers all.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Know thyself.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Success is a journey not a destination.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Begin with the end in mind.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
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.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
Life is what you make it.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
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.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.