Inspirational Quotes
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
It's always too soon to quit !
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
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.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
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.
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" through the greed of getting supporters.
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.
Grow deep - not just tall.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
It is always your next move.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
I think therefore I am
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'
Change comes from within.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
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.
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is ; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
No involvement, no commitment.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.