Inspirational Quotes
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
You're as old as you behave.
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.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Self-knowledge is the basis of JKD because it is effective, not only for the individuals martial art, but also for his life as a human being.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
Carpe diem.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Attitude is everything.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
Laughter is the best medicine.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
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.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
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.
Never, never, never give up.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
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.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
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.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.