Inspirational Quotes
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
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.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
The beginning is the half of every action.
Carpe diem.
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
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.
There is no substitute for hard work.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
Hope springs eternal.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
If you would create something, you must be something.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
It's not about the money. It's about what you feel you deserve.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
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.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is ; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
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.
Be who you are in every situation.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Remove failure as an option.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
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.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Every artist was first an amateur.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
It is always your next move.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.