Inspirational Quotes
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
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.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
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.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
We must be the change we wish to see.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Life is what you make it.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
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.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
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.
Great men are not always wise.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
The best things in life are free.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of : Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, and the full fledged devotion to god. Faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers.
Ability is sexless.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
If you would create something, you must be something.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
I never read a food column and think 'Wow I value your opinion' because everyone has an opinion now. What makes a columnist an expert? If you stay focused on your own goal, you'll be fine. It's when you start looking too far out that you're going to get lost.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
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".
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
Laughter is the best medicine.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
If there is a will, there is a way.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
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.