Inspirational Quotes
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
It's never too late.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
If there is a will, there is a way.
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.
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Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
Happiness is a choice.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Happiness is a state of mind.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moments you reject all help, are you free. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
Where there is love there is no darkness.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
Laughter is the best medicine.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
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.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
Be all you can be.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
Anything is possible.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
You become what you think about.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
It's not about the money. It's about what you feel you deserve.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.