Inspirational Quotes
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Never Quit.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
If there is a will, there is a way.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
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.
Know thyself.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not
Our intentions create our reality.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
Reach for the stars.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
Happiness is a state of activity.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
Success is a journey not a destination.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" through the greed of getting supporters.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
It is always your next move.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.