Inspirational Quotes
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
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.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
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.
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.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
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.
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
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.
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.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
The buck stops here.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Do or do not, there is no try.
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.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
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.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
My life is my message.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
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.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Live life to the fullest.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
The best way out is always through.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
After every happiness comes misery, they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature, both are chains -- one iron, one gold , behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change , but the nature of the atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it, only wash away the dross and see it.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
Every artist was first an amateur.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
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.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
In love beggar and king are equal.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.