Inspirational Quotes
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
Live your life and forget your age.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
Experience is the best teacher.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
I love Ray, and I love how he always spoke from the heart, but if you listened to those speeches, a lot of them didn't even make sense. He meant everything he was saying, but I didn't know what he was talking about 90 percent of the time.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
Never stop dreaming.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to god.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
Do what you love and the money will follow
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
After your jump, the net appears.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
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.
It is always your next move.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
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.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Remove failure as an option.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.