Inspirational Quotes
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
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.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
High expectations are the key to everything.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
Only the educated are free.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
To go fast, row slowly.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Hunker down.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
If it is to be it is up to me.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
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.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
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.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
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.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
Happiness is a state of activity.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.