Inspirational Quotes
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
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.
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
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.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
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.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
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.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
Do or do not, there is no try.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
Honesty is the best image.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.