Inspirational Quotes
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
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.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
Live life with passion.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
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.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
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.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
If you would create something, you must be something.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
The best way out is always through.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
My friends are my estate.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
There is no substitute for hard work.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
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.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
I am the captain of my soul.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
Live with passion.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
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.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not
Think and grow rich.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
Hard work pays off.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.