Inspirational Quotes
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.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
This too, shall pass.
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
The ready back gets all the loads.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
Whatever it takes !
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
You must motivate yourself every day.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
Let's roll.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
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 search for someone to blame is always successful.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
I do not believe in styles anymore. I do not believe that there is such a thing as the Chinese way of fighting or the Japanese way of fighting, or any other way of fighting, because unless a human being has three arms and four legs, there can be no different form of fighting. To me, ultimately, martial art means honestly expressing yourself.
Seize the day.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Many hands make light work.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
Well done is better than well said.