Inspirational Quotes
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
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.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Those who laugh - last!!
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
Live your life and forget your age.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
Never say die.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
Happiness is a state of mind.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
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.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
Grow deep - not just tall.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
In love beggar and king are equal.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.