Inspirational Quotes
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
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.
For with god all things are possible.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
Nothing succeeds like success.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
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.
Each action can be the one on which all depends , what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment'.
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 ?
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
The best things in life are not things.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
They are able because they think they are able.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
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.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
The ready back gets all the loads.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
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.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
Slow but steady wins the race.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.