Inspirational Quotes
Remove failure as an option.
Many hands make light work.
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.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
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.
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.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Ability is sexless.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
They alone live, who live for others.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
None are homely who smile.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
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.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
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.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
Don't quit.
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?