Inspirational Quotes
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
Believe in yourself.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
Success is a journey not a destination.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
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
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
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.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
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.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
You become what you think about.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
It's always too soon to quit !
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
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.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
Don't water your weeds.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.