Inspirational Quotes
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
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.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Don't fear, just live right.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
You only get out what you put in.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
Action is the antidote to despair.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Don't ever give up.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Practice makes perfect.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
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.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
This too, shall pass.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
We will either find a way or make one.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
The beginning is the half of every action.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
A bold onset is half the battle.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
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.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.