Inspirational Quotes
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
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.
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
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.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
Don't think it, ink it.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
The best things in life are free.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
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.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
He who has hope has everything.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
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.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
I light my candle from their torches.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
Adventure is worthwhile.
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.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
They can because they think they can.
Obstacles are great incentives.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
Whatever you are be a good one.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
Don't water your weeds.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.