Inspirational Quotes
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
Where there's life, there's hope.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
Only the educated are free.
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.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
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.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
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.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Those who laugh - last!!
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Adventure is worthwhile.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
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.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Be Here Now.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
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.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
Never say die.
You must motivate yourself every day.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
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.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.