Inspirational Quotes
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
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.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Never say die.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
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.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
Actions speak louder than words.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
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.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
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.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
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.
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.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
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.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
Perfect love can not be without equality.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
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.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Know thyself.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.