Inspirational Quotes
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
Never say die.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
Only the educated are free.
Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
You only get out what you put in.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
Better late than never.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
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 !
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
Keep the Faith.
Do what you love and the money will follow
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
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.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.