Inspirational Quotes
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
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''.
Slow but steady wins the race.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
He who stops being better stops being good.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
The best things in life are free.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Actions speak louder than words.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
A bold onset is half the battle.
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
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.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
We have not yet begun to fight.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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.
No pain, No gain.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.