Inspirational Quotes
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
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.
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
You become what you think about.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
It's not about the money. It's about what you feel you deserve.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
Honesty is the best image.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
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.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
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.
Don't ever give up.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
The truth is more important than the facts.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
Only the educated are free.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
For with god all things are possible.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on 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. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
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.
Live your life and forget your age.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
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.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.