Inspirational Quotes
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of : Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, and the full fledged devotion to god. Faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
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.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Keep the Faith.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
Talkers are no good doers.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
What ever you are be a good one.
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.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Remove failure as an option.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.