Inspirational Quotes
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.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
Do what you love and the money will follow
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
It ain't over till it's over.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
The book you don't read cant help.
Well done is better than well said.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Truth fears no questions.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
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.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
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.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
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.
We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
Actions speak louder than words.