Inspirational Quotes
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
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.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
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.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Whatever it takes !
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
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.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
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 only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
To go fast, row slowly.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
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
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin , it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene , if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
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.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
Truth fears no questions.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.