Inspirational Quotes
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
Count your blessings.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
Attitude determines altitude.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
Great men are not always wise.
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.
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.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
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.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
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.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
The best things in life are free.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
Every human heart is human.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
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.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.