Inspirational Quotes
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
They can because they think they can.
All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
To go fast, row slowly.
Without a general an army is lost.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
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.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Don't fear, just live right.
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Things do not change we change.
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
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.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
It's always too soon to quit !
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Actions speak louder than words.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'