Inspirational Quotes
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
What ever you are be a good one.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
You're as old as you behave.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
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.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
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.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
High expectations are the key to everything.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
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.
Let's roll.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
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.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!