Inspirational Quotes
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
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.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
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.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Whatever you are be a good one.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
Faith can move mountains.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
We will either find a way or make one.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
Every artist was first an amateur.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
Well done is better than well said.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
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.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
Embrace that it's ok to grow.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
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.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
Never stop dreaming.
Live with passion !
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
Each action can be the one on which all depends , what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment'.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.