Inspirational Quotes
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
Change comes from within.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.
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.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
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.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
The book you don't read cant help.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to god.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
They can because they think they can.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
Live life to the fullest.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon- instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
Obstacles are great incentives.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.
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.