Inspirational Quotes
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall , but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
Better late than never.
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.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
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.
Live your life and forget your age.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
The book you don't read cant help.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
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.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
The beginning is the half of every action.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
They can because they think they can.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
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.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
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.
Our intentions create our reality.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
Be all you can be.
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
Live life with passion.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.