Inspirational Quotes
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
Let thy words be few.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
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.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
You can do what you want to do.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Kind words conquer.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
The best things in life are free.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
They can because they think they can.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
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.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
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.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
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.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
He who has hope has everything.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
Happiness is a state of mind.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
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.