Inspirational Quotes
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
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.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Anything is possible.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
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.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcomed invaluable, but it does not free him from responsibility.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
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.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
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.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
This is the beginning of a new day.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
Every human heart is human.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
Action is the antidote to despair.
Things do not change we change.
The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
Be Here Now.
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
Make the second effort your second nature.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
Love sees roses without thorns.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
Where there's life, there's hope.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.