Inspirational Quotes
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Never say die.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
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.
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
Children are all foreigners.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
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.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
Never stop dreaming.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
You can do what you want to do.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
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.
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
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.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
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.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
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.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.