Inspirational Quotes
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
Change comes from within.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
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.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
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.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
They alone live, who live for others.
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.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
No pain, No gain.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
Hard work pays off.
In love beggar and king are equal.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
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.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
Attitude is everything.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
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.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.