Inspirational Quotes
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.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
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.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Never spend your money before you have it.
Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Think and grow rich.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
Action is the antidote to despair.
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.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
Ideas without action are worthless.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
Happiness is the indication that man has found the answer to the problem of human existence the productive realization of his potentialities and thus, simultaneously, being one with the world and preserving the integrity of his self.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
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.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
You are what you think you are.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
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.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
Laughter is the best medicine.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Live life to the fullest.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?