Inspirational Quotes
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
Ability is sexless.
It's always too soon to quit !
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
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.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
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.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
God doesn't make junk.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
All work is empty save when there is love.
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
Embrace your inner voice.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
I am the captain of my soul.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
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.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
Know thyself.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Grow deep - not just tall.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.