Inspirational Quotes
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Success is the child of audacity.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
Strike while the iron is hot.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
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.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
Follow your dreams.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
The buck stops here.
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''.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
Never say more than is necessary.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of : Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, and the full fledged devotion to god. Faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
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.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Unfortunately, most of the students in martial art are conformers. The student seldom learns to depend upon himself for expression. Instead, he faithfully or blindly follows an instructor, the authority figure, and his instructor's imposed pattern. That way, the student feels he is no longer alone and finds security in mass imitation. However, what is nurtured is the dependent mind rather than independent inquiry, which is so essential to genuine understanding. So through daily conditioning a student will probably be skilled according to a pattern, however, he will not come to understand himself.
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Live with passion !
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.