Inspirational Quotes
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
Honesty is the best image.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
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.
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
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.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
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.
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.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of : Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, and the full fledged devotion to god. Faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
Success leaves clues.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
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.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
Faith can move mountains.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
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.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
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.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.