Inspirational Quotes
For with god all things are possible.
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.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
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.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
He who hesitates is lost.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
I light my candle from their torches.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Don't think it, ink it.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
How far you go in life depends on your 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.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
Above all, beware of compromises. Hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others fads through the greed of getting supporters. Your atman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of ?
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
Be Here Now.