Inspirational Quotes
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
High expectations are the key to everything.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
Success is never wondering what if.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
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.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
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.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
Never Quit.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
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.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
No pain, No gain.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
We must be the change we wish to see.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
There is time for everything.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
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.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
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.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
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.
Don't quit.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
Above all to thine own self be true.
Grow deep - not just tall.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
Be the best that you can be.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.