Inspirational Quotes
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Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Don't water your weeds.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
Talkers are no good doers.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
Great men are not always wise.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
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.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
The best things in life are free.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Action is the antidote to despair.
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.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
You are what you think you are.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Grow deep - not just tall.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
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.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Whatever you are be a good one.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.