Inspirational Quotes
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.
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.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
Live life to the fullest.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
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.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
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.
Never say more than is necessary.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
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.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
Do what you love and the money will follow
May you live all the days of your life.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
A bold onset is half the battle.
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
Follow your dreams.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
We have not yet begun to fight.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Embrace your inner voice.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
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.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.