Inspirational Quotes
Experience is the best teacher.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
Live your life and forget your age.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
I do not believe in styles anymore. I do not believe that there is such a thing as the Chinese way of fighting or the Japanese way of fighting, or any other way of fighting, because unless a human being has three arms and four legs, there can be no different form of fighting. To me, ultimately, martial art means honestly expressing yourself.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
It is never too late to be what we might have been
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
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.
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.
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Truth fears no questions.
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.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
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.
Children are all foreigners.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
There is time for everything.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
There is no education like adversity.
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.