Inspirational Quotes
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Don't think it, ink it.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
The past does not equal the future.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
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.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Fortune favors the brave.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
You become what you think about.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
Make the second effort your second nature.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
Action is the antidote to despair.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
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.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
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 our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
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.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
What ever you are be a good one.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
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.
Hunker down.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.