Inspirational Quotes
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Happiness is a choice.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
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.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
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.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Attitude determines altitude.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
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.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
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.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
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.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
It ain't over till it's over.
The show must go on.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
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.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
It's never too late.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.