Sometimes when I am free, I often likes to read inspirational quotations from the internet, and if i found it is nice and very motivating, i often post it into my facebook, and here they are which i have posted so far, hope you will enjoy it. 🙂
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
The real test of friendship is: can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?
never explain yourself to anyone. because the person who likes you doesnt need it, and the person who dislikes you wont believe it.
Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor. – Sholom Aleichem
All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them – Walt Disney
When a person should be spoken with, and you don’t speak with them, you lose them. When a person shouldn’t be spoken with and you speak to them, you waste your breath. The wise do not lose people, nor do they waste their breath. – Confucius
I am not ashamed to confess that I am ignorant of what I do not know.
Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that’s good taste.
Keep your heart open to dreams. For as long as there’s a dream, there is hope, and as long as there is hope, there is joy in living.
“Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.” Joel Barker
Show me a man who cannot be bothered to do little things and I’ll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.”Lawrence D. Bell
Smooth seas do not make good sailors.
Once in a while you meet someone, and soon you both discover the two of you are truly something special to each other… you share your thoughts and feelings so relaxed, so openly, and right away you know your friendship’s truly meant to be.
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds
Happiness exist for those who cries, those who tormented, those who tried to find someone, those who have tried, because only them who can appreciate how important is someone who touched their life
People will forget what you said.. People will forget what you did.. But people will never forget how you made them feel..
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
You don’t have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn’t know you possessed.
Harta bisa menghias rumahmu Tapi hanya kebajikan yang bisa menghias dirimu Baju bisa menghias tubuhmu Tapi hanya perilaku yang bisa menghias dirimu.
If you put on more garments, the cold cannot reach you. Similarly, increase your patience and concentration and even great injuries cannot vex your mind. – Leonardo Da Vinci
When written in Chinese, the word ‘crisis’ is composed of two characters – one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.
Dream what you want to dream, go where you want to go, be what you want to be, because you have only one life and one chance to do all the things you want in life.
A sad thing about life is that when you meet someone who means a lot to you only to find out in the end that it was never bound to be and you just have to let go.
Failure is only postponed success as long as courage coaches ambition. The habit of persistence is the habit of victory. – Herbert Kaufman
I’ve learned that we cannot forget or throw away our past, But we must not allow our past to control us either. We must learn and grow from our past failures, Disappointments, pains and experiences. Reset our goals and priorities… and move forward.
The difficulty is not to be great to die for a friend, it is to find a friend who worth dying for.
a ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
Leaders who win the respect of others are the ones who deliver more than they promise, not the ones who promise more than they can deliver.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. – Bill Cosby
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. – Thomas Alva Edison
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision
cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved. – Helen Adams Keller
You see things as they are and ask, “Why?” I dream things as they never were and ask, “Why not?”
time is like a river, you cannot touch the same water twice, because the flow that has passed will never pass again. enjoy every moment of life..
when we wake up in the morning, we have two simple choices. go back to sleep and dream, or wake up and chase those dreams, choice is yours…
Pride – Skills = Arrogance
Skills – Pride = Mediocre Work
Pride + Skills = Best Work.
Passion – Direction = Wasted Energy
Direction – Passion = Success Takes Longer
Passion + Direction = Goals Galore
Belief – Action = Fantasies
Action – Belief = Fool at Work
champions are not made in a gym, champions are made from something, they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision, they have to have last minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will, but the will must be bigger than the skill.
Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. – Joseph Addison
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. – Marcus Aelius Aurelius
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. – Walter Bagehot
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. – Pearl Bailey
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind
shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. – Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. – Buddha
it is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live. – Marcus Aelius Aurelius
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. – Carol Burnett
Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life. – James Francis Byrnes
If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again. – Mary Beth Danielson
If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive. – Elbert Hubbard
My father always used to say that when you die, if you’ve got five real friends, you’ve had a great life. – Elbert Hubbard
If you give a man a fish, he will have a single meal. If you teach him how to fish, he will eat all his life. – Kwan Tzu
Learn from the past, Hope for the future, Live in the present. – Ken Lancaster
to be angry, that is easy, but to be angry with the right person, at the right time, in the right place for the right purpose, and in the right way, that is not easy
you must do the things you think you cannot do!!
Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat. – Ryszard Kapuscinski
Worry a little every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry. Worry never fixes anything. – Mary Hemingway
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was time when we were not;
this gives us no concern — why then should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be? – William Ha
Life’s Tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. – Benjamin Franklin
Life without a friend is death without a witness. – Eugene Benge
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything — or nothing. – Lady Nancy Astor
Businesses planned for service are apt to succeed; businesses planned for profit are apt to fail. – Nicholas Murray Butler
Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it. – Sam Wing
Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success. – William S. Gilbert
Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you; until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire; until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad then you will not success
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit! – Conrad Hilton
If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it. – Edward A. Murphy
There is no religion higher than the truth. – Hahn Blavatsky
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth or the only truth. – Charles Anderson Dana
He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger. – Confucius
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. – Confucius
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. – Confucius
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action. – Confucius
Wealth and rank are what people desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed. – Confucius
Do not use a cannon to kill a mosquito. – Confucius
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. – Dave Tyson Gentry
If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you. – Charles Gordon
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength, mastering yourself is true power. – Lao Tzu
Failures are divided into two classes – those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought, Success is not permanent. The same is also true for failure, Yesterday’s failures are today’s seeds. That must be diligently planted to be able to abundantly harvest Tomorrow’s success.
All good men are happy when they choose to be their own authors. Those who choose to have others edit their pathways, must live on the edge of another man’s sword. – Julie Arabi
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about. – Dale Carnegie
The Grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. – Allan K. Chalmers
Teamwork divides the task and doubles the success. Attitude is the little things that make a big difference. No one can predict to what heights you can soar. Even you will not know until you spread your wings.
Happiness depends on what you can give. Not what you can get. – Mahatma Gandhi
If I have lost confidence in myself then I have the universe against me. – Emerson
All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers. When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees. The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light. – Helen Keller, but it is also true that walking alone in the light is better than walking alone in the dark – Biyon.
True friends visit us in prosperity only when invited, but in adversity they come without invitation. – Theoprastus
The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention – Richard Moss
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. – David Brinkley
What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? – George Eliot
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none. – William Shakespeare
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. – Samuel Johnson
We find comfort among those who agree with us– growth among those who don’t. – Frank A Clark
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. – Chinese Proverb.
Being angry never solves anything. – Catherine Pulsifer
When anger rises, think of the consequences. – Confucius
The more you care, the stronger you can be. – Jim Rohn
We find comfort among those who agree with us– growth among those who don’t. – Frank A Clark
If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. – Chinese Proverb.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. – Seneca
The crisis of yesterday is the joke of tomorrow. – Wells, H. G.
If you help others you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be helped. Nature must pay off the debt… – Gurdjieff
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight. – Aristophanes
From time to time, to remind ourselves to relax, to be peaceful, we may wish to set aside some time for a retreat, a day of mindfulness, when we walk slowly, smile, drink tea with a friend, and enjoy being together as if we are the happiest people on Earth. – Thich Nhat Hanh
Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didnt get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful. – Buddha
It is better to deserve an honor and not receive it, than to receive one, and not deserve it! – Mark Twain
You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don’t trust enough.
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions – it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
The reason why a dog has so many friends, is because he wags his tail instead of his tongue.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. – Mignon McLaughlin
What comes from the heart, touches the heart.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. – Winston Churchill
God, grant me:
Serenity – to accept the things I cannot change
Courage – to change the things I can, and
Wisdom – to know the difference.
-Reinhold Neibuhr-
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions, small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can
become great. – Mark Twain
Say what you mean and act how you feel,
because those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter. – Dr. Seuss
You have to leave the city of your comfort, and go into the wilderness of your intuition, What you’ll discover will be wonderful, What you’ll discover is yourself. – Alan Alda
If you don’t know where you are going,
then how will you get there?
VISUALISE!
Make pictures in your mind.
See the desination.
Imagine your arrival.
Dream in perfect detail.
See yourself the way you want to be when you arrive.
See yourself arriving.
Make yourself a road map and study it every day
until you know the way and the destination by heart.
~ Bryce Courtenay ~
Keep your thoughts positive,
because your thoughts become your words.
Keep your words positive,
because your words become your behaviours.
Keep your behaviours positive,
because your behaviours become your habits.
Keep your habits positive,
because your habits become your values.
Keep your values positive,
because your values become your destiny.
~ Gandhi ~
Difficulties are opportunities to better things,
they are stepping stones to greater experience.
Perhaps some day you will be thankful
for some temporary failure in a particular direction.
When one door closes,
another always opens,
as a natural law it has to be, to balance.
~ Brian Adams (from ‘How to Succeed’) ~
Though no-one can go back
and make a brand new start,
anyone can start from now
and make a brand new end.
~ Author Unknown ~
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.
Only through experience of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired,
and success achieved.
~ Helen Keller ~
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. – Viktor Frankl
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars. – Charles A. Beard.
What does not destroy me, makes me stronger. – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Greet everyone you meet with a warm smile, no matter how busy you are,
don’t rush enounters with co-workers, family and friends. Speak softly. Listen attentively.
Reality is what we take to be true.
What we take to be true is what we believe.
What we believe is based upon our perceptions.
What we perceive depends upon what we look for.
What we look for depends upon what we think.
What we think depends upon what we perceive.
What we perceive determines what we believe.
What we believe determines what we take to be true.
What we take to be true is our reality.
~ Gary Zukav ~
The man who views the world at fifty,
the same as he did at twenty,
has wasted thirty years of his life.
~ Muhammed Ali ~
Men are disturbed not by the things that happen,
But by their opinion of the things that happen.
~ Epictetus ~
He who loses wealth loses something; he who loses a friend loses much more; but he who loses his courage loses all. – Miguel de Cervantes
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but lets look around us in awareness. – James Thurber
Courage is never letting your actions be influenced by your fears. – Arthur Koestler
To fight a bull when you are not scared is nothing. And to not fight a bull when you are scared is nothing. But to fight a bull when you are scared is something.
There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with the world, afraid to face himself. – Roscoe Snowden.
To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice. – Confucius
coward fight a battle when he’s sure of winning. – George Eliot
i am not in competition with anybody, my target is to beat my last best performance! – bill gates
remember you are born to live, don’t live because you are born!! don’t go the way life takes you, take life the way you go!
it is hard to beat a person who never gives up!
Biyon 