Inspirational Quotes
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
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.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Don't ever give up.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Be all you can be.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Children are all foreigners.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
All work is empty save when there is love.
Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
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.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Practice makes perfect.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Happiness is a state of activity.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
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.
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
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.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
Happiness is the indication that man has found the answer to the problem of human existence the productive realization of his potentialities and thus, simultaneously, being one with the world and preserving the integrity of his self.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
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.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.