Inspirational Quotes
When we place blame, we give away our power.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
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.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
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.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
Hard work pays off.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
Live with passion !
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
I love Ray, and I love how he always spoke from the heart, but if you listened to those speeches, a lot of them didn't even make sense. He meant everything he was saying, but I didn't know what he was talking about 90 percent of the time.
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.
He who has hope has everything.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
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.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
Kindness is always fashionable.
Life is what you make it.
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.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
There is time for everything.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
There is no substitute for hard work.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.