Inspirational Quotes
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
Change comes from within.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
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.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
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.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
The truth is more important than the facts.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
You are made from the same energy source that has created the oceans, the forests, the mountains, the valleys and all the stars in the sky. So tell me again, why you don't have the strength and power to create whatever you desire?
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
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 listener does not hear. quotes
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.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
This is the beginning of a new day.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.