Inspirational Quotes
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
Happiness is a state of activity.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is ; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
Actions speak louder than words.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Do or do not, there is no try.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
We need to embrace that the things that we love come to an end. And to not take them for granted. To step back & make sure we really live in the moments which matter to us. Not just being there as a participant. But to really be there a 100%.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
So whether or not we can get together, remember well that art lives where absolute freedom is. With all the training thrown to nowhere, with a mind perfectly unaware of its own working, with the self vanishing nowhere the art of JKD attains its perfection.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter
I think therefore I am
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
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
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
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.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
No involvement, no commitment.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
Never Quit.
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !
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.
Practice makes perfect.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !