Inspirational Quotes
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
Those who laugh - last!!
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
We must be the change we wish to see.
Faith can move mountains.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
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.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
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.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
Be Here Now.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Great men are not always wise.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
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.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.