Inspirational Quotes
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
Truth fears no questions.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
You always succeed in producing a result.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
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.
Where there's life, there's hope.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
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.
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
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.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
Children are all foreigners.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
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.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
Be all you can be.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
Nothing succeeds like success.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
Better late than never.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
You can do what you want to do.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true, this I have learnt after suffering all my life, all else is mere moonshine.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
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.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.