Inspirational Quotes
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.
Attitude is everything.
The ready back gets all the loads.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
We will either find a way or make one.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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 ?
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
They can because they think they can.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
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.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Think and grow rich.
Strike while the iron is hot.
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
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. Discover.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
Love sees roses without thorns.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
This too, shall pass.
Never, never, never give up.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
The book you don't read cant help.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
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.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
Love conquers all.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.
None are homely who smile.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.