Inspirational Quotes
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
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.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
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.
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
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.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
Ability is sexless.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
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.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
Reach for the stars.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
My life is my message.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
Adventure is worthwhile.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
The beginning is the half of every action.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
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.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.