Inspirational Quotes
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
The book you don't read cant help.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
We must be the change we wish to see.
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.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
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.
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.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
Better late than never.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
I am the captain of my soul.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
There is no education like adversity.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
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.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
Security is a kind of death.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
In love beggar and king are equal.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
Success is never wondering what if.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
Be all you can be.
To ask the hard question is simple.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.