Inspirational Quotes
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
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.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
He who hesitates is lost !
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
Never say die.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
Honesty is the best image.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
Every artist was first an amateur.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
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.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
If there is a will, there is a way.
Obstacles are great incentives.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
They can because they think they can.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
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.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
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.
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.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
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.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.