Inspirational Quotes
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
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.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
Things do not change we change.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
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.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Faith can move mountains.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
Our intentions create our reality.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
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.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
Live your life and forget your age.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
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.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.