Inspirational Quotes
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
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.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
Be Here Now.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
I do not believe in styles anymore. I do not believe that there is such a thing as the Chinese way of fighting or the Japanese way of fighting, or any other way of fighting, because unless a human being has three arms and four legs, there can be no different form of fighting. To me, ultimately, martial art means honestly expressing yourself.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
My friends are my estate.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
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.
The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
A bold onset is half the battle.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!