Inspirational Quotes
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
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Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
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.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
This too, shall pass.
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
In love beggar and king are equal.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
If you would create something, you must be something.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Don't ever give up.
The time is always right to do what is right.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
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.
No one became poor by giving alms.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
You become what you think about.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
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.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
Never stop dreaming.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
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.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
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.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
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.
Every artist was first an amateur.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.