Inspirational Quotes
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
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.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Do it now !
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
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.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
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.
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.
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.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
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.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
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.
Do or do not, there is no try.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
Be the best that you can be.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
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.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
After your jump, the net appears.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
Change comes from within.
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?
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.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'