Inspirational Quotes
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
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 ?
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.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
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.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Remove failure as an option.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
Success is never wondering what if.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
Ideas without action are worthless.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
Whatever you are be a good one.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
There's always a way - if you're committed.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
Think and grow rich.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.