Inspirational Quotes
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
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.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
I think therefore I am
The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true, this I have learnt after suffering all my life, all else is mere moonshine.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
You are what you think you are.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Grow deep - not just tall.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
Be who you are in every situation.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
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.
After every happiness comes misery, they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature, both are chains -- one iron, one gold , behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change , but the nature of the atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it, only wash away the dross and see it.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
Above all to thine own self be true.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
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.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
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.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
No involvement, no commitment.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
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.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
There is time for everything.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Never, never, never give up.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcomed invaluable, but it does not free him from responsibility.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
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.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
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.
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.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Honesty is the best image.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
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.