Inspirational Quotes
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
Live life to the fullest.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
There is no substitute for hard work.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
If there is a will, there is a way.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
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.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
We will either find a way or make one.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
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.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
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.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
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.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Carpe diem.
Never complain about what you permit.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
We have not yet begun to fight.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
You must motivate yourself every day.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.