Inspirational Quotes
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
Keep away from 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.
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
The best way out is always through.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
Whatever it takes !
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
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.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
The beginning is the half of every action.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Attitude is everything.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
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.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
It's always too soon to quit !
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
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.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
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.