Inspirational Quotes
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.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
Begin with the end in mind.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
The past does not equal the future.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
You are made from the same energy source that has created the oceans, the forests, the mountains, the valleys and all the stars in the sky. So tell me again, why you don't have the strength and power to create whatever you desire?
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
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.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
Well done is better than well said.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
So whether or not we can get together, remember well that art lives where absolute freedom is. With all the training thrown to nowhere, with a mind perfectly unaware of its own working, with the self vanishing nowhere the art of JKD attains its perfection.
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.
Actions speak louder than words.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
Think and grow rich.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
There is time for everything.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
Those who laugh - last!!
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.