Inspirational Quotes
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.
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.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
Be all you can be.
Reach for the stars.
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.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
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.
You're as old as you behave.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
The best things in life are not things.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
You only get out what you put in.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
To go fast, row slowly.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
The buck stops here.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
He who stops being better stops being good.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
The show must go on.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
Your talent is god's gift to 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.
Old love does not rust.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Slow but steady wins the race.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.