Inspirational Quotes
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
It ain't over till it's over.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
Reach for the stars.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Obstacles are great incentives.
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Nothing succeeds like success.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Where there's life, there's hope.
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.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
Change comes from within.
Great men are not always wise.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
Those who laugh - last!!
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
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.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.