🔥 Motivational

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life.

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Lameness is an impediment to the leg, but not to the will; and say this to yourself with regard to everything that happens.

Hold fast to those things which seem best to you, as one appointed by God to this post.

Difficulties are things that show what men are.

If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write. In general, whatever you would become, practice that very thing.

Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things; and thence proceed to greater.

I must suffer exile. Can any man then hinder me from going with a smile, and a good courage, and at peace?

As the sun does not wait for prayers and incantations to be induced to rise, but immediately shines and is greeted by all: so neither wait for applauses, and prate, to do good.

Every habit and faculty is maintained and increased by the corresponding actions: the habit of walking by walking, the habit of running by running.

Count the days on which you have not been angry: 'I used to be angry every day; now every other day; then every third and fourth day.' If you have passed thirty days, offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving.

Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.

You are no longer a boy, but a full-grown man. If you are careless and lazy now, and keep putting things off, you will remain without improving, living and dying as an ordinary person.

From this moment, then, deem yourself worthy of living as a mature person who is making progress.

And if any task, whether agreeable or painful, be set before you, remember that the contest is now, the Olympic Games are now, and delay is no longer possible.

And you, even if you are not yet a Socrates, ought to live as one who wishes to be a Socrates.

What would have become of Hercules do you think if there had been no lion, hydra, stag or boar, and no savage and wild beasts to drive him into the arena?

It is trials that show what a man is. When trouble arrives, greet it as the sparring partner sent to make you an Olympic champion.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

When you stand with both feet firmly on the ground, you will always keep your balance.

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

When the Master governs, the people are hardly aware that he exists. When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: 'We did it ourselves.'

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

The soft and the yielding overcome the hard and the strong.

If powerful men and women could center themselves in it, the whole world would be transformed by itself, in its natural rhythm.

Nothing in the world is more soft and yielding than water. Yet for attacking the hard and strong, nothing can surpass it.

Therefore an army that cannot yield will be defeated. A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind.

The creator seeks companions, not corpses, nor herds and believers. The creator seeks fellow creators.

You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?

Let your love of life be love to your highest hope; and let your highest hope be the highest thought of life!

It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

Whoever reaches his ideal transcends it eo ipso.

Help yourself: then everyone will help you. Principle of brother-love.

The doer alone learneth.

One must learn to love oneself—thus I teach—with a whole and healthy love: that one may endure oneself and not go wandering about.

Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships into uncharted seas!

What does your conscience say? 'You shall become who you are.'

A snake that cannot shed its skin must die. So firms the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.

Ten times a day must thou overcome thyself: that imparteth a fine fatigue, and is poppy-juice to the soul.

Let your spirit and your virtue serve the sense of the earth, my brethren: and the value of all things shall be established by you anew!

Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be.

You cannot live at all, unless you can live fully now.

To live without comparison is to discover the infinite richness of what is right in front of you.

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure.

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect, but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity.

To give birth to the ancient in a new time is creation.

There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it and liberate its creative energy.

Nobody can fall so low unless he has a great depth. If such a thing happens, it signifies that he must now descend into his own depth.

Fear is an indicator that you are approaching something genuinely important.

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Do not compare yourself to others. Compare yourself to the person you were yesterday.

Meaning makes a great many things endurable—perhaps everything.

The treasure you seek is hidden in the cave you fear to enter.

The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

When you want wisdom and insight as badly as you want air when you are under water, then you will have it.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

To live well is to act well; for happiness is not a possession, but an active practice.

In the arena of human life, honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

Choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light of virtue.

Life asks of every individual a contribution, and it is up to the individual to discover what that should be.

To love someone is to enable them to realize their highest possibilities.

Even a helpless victim of a hopeless situation, facing a fate he cannot change, may rise above himself, may grow beyond himself, and by so doing change himself.

He may turn a personal tragedy into a triumph; he may turn his predicament into a human achievement.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Each situation in life represents a challenge to man and presents a problem for him to solve.

The feeling of meaninglessness is not a disease, but the most human of all achievements—the awakening of conscience.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

A person who has a why can bear almost any how because his conscience illuminates the path ahead.

He who learns to laugh at his symptoms has taken the first step toward leaving them behind.

No situation is devoid of the opportunity for greatness. Even in the depths of sorrow, the soul may manifest nobility.

Every human being is a sculptor, chiseling his own character out of the marble of hardship.

Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.

When the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

Seize the very first possible opportunity to act on every resolution you make, and on every emotional prompting you may experience in the direction of the habits you aspire to gain.

Sow an action and you reap a habit; sow a habit and you reap a character; sow a character and you reap a destiny.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.

There is no more valuable precept in moral education than this: smooth the brow, brighten the eye, contract the dorsal rather than the ventral aspect of the frame, and speak in a major key.

We all have reservoirs of life to draw upon, of which we do not dream.

Live out the active hypothesis; life will reveal whether your ground was firm.

There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.

Believe in the best, work for the best, and expect the best; and character will follow in your footsteps.

Live out your convictions with heroic energy; the world will make way for the person who knows where he is going.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life; think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Don't count the days, make the days count.

Whatever you think, that you will be. If you think yourselves weak, weak you will be; if you think yourselves strong, strong you will be.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so.

Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.

Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it were after his or her heart. But the intelligent one is he who can turn every task into his heart's delight.

Never say 'No', never say 'I cannot', for you are infinite. All the power is within you.

You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

He who struggles is better than he who never attempts.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true, and you must act to make them real.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

Have faith that you are born to do great things.

Every obstacle is an opportunity to forge character.

Awaken the giant within your own consciousness.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined.

The future depends on what you do today.

Full effort is full victory.

Man often becomes what he believes himself to be.

Keep your values positive, because your values become your destiny.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.

The soul was made for soaring, not for crawling in the dust.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

You must not let your life run in the ordinary groove; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world with the power of God in you.

When you are in tune with the Infinite, all things become possible.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory in overcoming it.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Every obstacle is a stepping stone to higher realization.

Live with radiant purpose and divine enthusiasm.

Let your existence be a radiant beacon of hope.

Man's greatness is not in what he is, but in what he makes possible.

Do not be afraid of the heights; you were born for the peaks.

The truth of tomorrow is born in the courageous thoughts of today.

Do not look down; keep your gaze fixed upon the stars.

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

Live in the radiant certitude of spiritual victory.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

A courageous leader inspires an entire army to victory.

Never despise a small beginning.

Between the bars of the cage, the bird has made its nest. Break the bars, O seeker, and take to the open sky.

The pearl diver plunges fearlessly into the depths of the ocean to find the jewel, while the coward sits weeping on the shore.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can present every moment with the cumulative force of a whole life's cultivation.

Every man is a channel through which heaven would pour forth its gifts, if he did not block the way.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.

Action is with the scholar subordinate, but it is essential. Without it he is not yet man. Without it thought can never ripen into truth.

Tomorrow is a new day; begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Do that which is assigned you, and you cannot hope too much or dare too much.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

Great men exist that there may be greater men.

The first wealth is health.

The best way to predict your future is to create it.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

Study as if you were never to master it; as if in fear you were losing it.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.

Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

You are far greater than your knowledge, and more immense than your dreams.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

Even dust, when piled through patience, becomes a towering mountain.

After the storm has soaked the earth, the ground hardens into stone.

Where there is a dark shadow, a brilliant light is guaranteed to be standing nearby.

Even the mightiest oak tree began as an acorn hidden in the darkness of the earth.

The bow must bend before the arrow can fly toward its mark.

The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The second best time is now.

A journey of a thousand miles begins beneath your very feet.

Do not fear growing slowly; fear only standing still.

Just as a chariot cannot roll upon a single wheel, human destiny cannot advance without effort joined to destiny.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

However long the night may linger, the dawn will surely break.

He who learns must also teach; he who gets must also give.

Even the finest cooking pot will never produce a feast without fire beneath it.

While I breathe, I hope.

We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an isolated act, but a steady habit.

Drop by drop, the great earthen jar is filled to overflowing.

If winter comes, can spring be far behind?

The roots of education and self-discipline are bitter, but the fruit is sweet and eternal.

You cannot plow a field simply by turning it over in your mind.

The tide will turn, however long and bleak the ebb may seem.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

The seed that is buried in the dark earth is not dead; it is simply preparing to dance in the sunlight.

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.

Every action you take is a vote for the person you wish to become.

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

Chance favors only the prepared mind.

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for any man to accomplish.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

Live intensely, live totally, here and now, for only the present moment is real.

Don't move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.

Don't try to understand life. Live it! Don't try to understand love. Move into love!

You are not an accident. Existence needs you. Without you, something will be missing in existence and nobody can replace it.

The moment you accept yourself, all doors open.

Awareness is the greatest alchemy there is. Just go on becoming more and more aware, and you will find your life changing for the better in every possible dimension.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life.

To conquer oneself is a greater victory than to conquer thousands in a battle.

The mind is everything; what you think you become.

Self-conquest is the greatest of victories.

We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

To be conquered by oneself is the greatest shame, but to conquer oneself is the greatest glory.

Nothing beautiful without struggle.

Let us be brave, and the gods will fight on our side.

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.

Do every act of your life as though it were the very last act of your life.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

Execute every act of your life as though it were your last, free from all vanity and despair.

Do not be ashamed of being helped. It is your duty to achieve your work, like a soldier on the battlements.

Dig within. Within is the well of good, and it will ever bubble forth, if you will ever dig.

The blazing fire makes flames and brightness out of everything that is thrown into it.

You have survived so much; why surrender now?

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

It is the power of the mind to be unconquerable.

A great pilot can sail even when his canvas is rent.

To wish to be well is a part of becoming well.

No tree becomes deep-rooted and sturdy unless frequent gales buffet it.

He who has begun his task has accomplished half. Dare to be wise and carry through.

He who has courage has everything.

He who seeks wisdom is already on the road to possessing it.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

The greatest cure for sorrow is work and purposeful engagement.

Stand firm, for the tempest will not last forever, but the dignity of your soul will endure.

Don't sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea.

Be an opener of doors.

The moon stays bright when it doesn't avoid the night.

Shine like the whole universe is yours.

Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction.

As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

What you seek is seeking you.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a great deal of it.