Inspirational Quotes
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
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.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
The successful man is the average man, focused.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
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 rut and a grave is their dimensions.
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
He who has hope has everything.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
Happiness is a state of activity.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Success is never wondering what if.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Don't water your weeds.
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.