Inspirational Quotes
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
After your jump, the net appears.
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.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.
In all the other movies that I’ve done, as well as my life. You know, I’ve been tagged. I guess we all have been tagged, right? We’re all alive. Right here, right now! This is happening. We’re alive!
You create your reality.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
Never complain about what you permit.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Kind words conquer.
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.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
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.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
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.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
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.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
It ain't over till it's over.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
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.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
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.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.