Inspirational Quotes
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
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.
Never complain about what you permit.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
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.
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.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
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.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.
If you would create something, you must be something.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
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.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
Don't quit.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
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.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
The ready back gets all the loads.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
The road to success is always under construction.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Whatever you are be a good one.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
Every artist was first an amateur.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moments you reject all help, are you free. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.