Inspirational Quotes
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
Only the educated are free.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
Kindness is always fashionable.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
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.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
Great men are not always wise.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
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
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
One man with courage is a majority.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
Don't fear, just live right.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
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.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
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.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
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.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.