Inspirational Quotes
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
They can because they think they can.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
Where there's life, there's hope.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
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.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
Happiness is a choice.
Believe in yourself.
The world belongs to the energetic.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
You are what you think you are.
They are able because they think they are able.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
You're as old as you behave.
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
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.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
Strike while the iron is hot.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Love sees roses without thorns.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .
But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin , it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene , if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
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.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.