Inspirational Quotes
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
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.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
We have not yet begun to fight.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
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.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Faith can move mountains.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
Roll with the punches.
Anything is possible.
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
Don't water your weeds.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
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.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
If you would create something, you must be something.
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
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.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.