Inspirational Quotes
Keep away from small 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.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
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.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
The past does not equal the future.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
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.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
There are no gains without pains.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
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 question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
Never spend your money before you have it.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
Be who you are in every situation.
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.
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
You create your reality.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
You're as old as you behave.
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.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Many hands make light work.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
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.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
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.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
This too, shall pass.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
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.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.