Inspirational Quotes
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
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.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
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.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
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.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
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.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
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.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
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?
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
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.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
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 ?
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.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
They alone live, who live for others.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
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.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.