Inspirational Quotes
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Follow your dreams.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Hard work pays off.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
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.
It is always your next move.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
The buck stops here.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
He who has hope has everything.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin , it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene , if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
Never say more than is necessary.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
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.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
He who hesitates is lost !
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.