Inspirational Quotes
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
The best things in life are free.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
Hope springs eternal.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
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.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
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.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Fortune favors the brave.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
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.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself.vivekanand.com http : www.indies.co.in
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.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
Things do not change we change.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
Don't think it, ink it.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.