Inspirational Quotes
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
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.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
You must motivate yourself every day.
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.
It's never too late.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
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.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
You are made from the same energy source that has created the oceans, the forests, the mountains, the valleys and all the stars in the sky. So tell me again, why you don't have the strength and power to create whatever you desire?
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Don't water your weeds.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
No man is wise enough by himself.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
Don't think it, ink it.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
Think and grow rich.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.