Inspirational Quotes
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
This 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.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
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.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
The book you don't read cant help.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
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 United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
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.
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.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
Live with passion.
For with god all things are possible.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
He who hesitates is lost.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Every human heart is human.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
Above all, beware of compromises. Hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others fads through the greed of getting supporters. Your atman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of ?
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
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.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
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.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
Do it now !