Inspirational Quotes
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
I am the captain of my soul.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
Do what you love and the money will follow
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is ; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
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.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
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.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
It is always your next move.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
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.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
They alone live, who live for others.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
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.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
Believe in yourself.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
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.
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
You become what you think about.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
Count your blessings.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.