Inspirational Quotes
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
I love Ray, and I love how he always spoke from the heart, but if you listened to those speeches, a lot of them didn't even make sense. He meant everything he was saying, but I didn't know what he was talking about 90 percent of the time.
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.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
My friends are my estate.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
What ever you are be a good one.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
They can because they think they can.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
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.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
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.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
There is time for everything.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.