Inspirational Quotes
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
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.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
Success is predictable.
It ain't over till it's over.
You're as old as you behave.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
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.
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.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
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.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
For with god all things are possible.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
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.
A bold onset is half the battle.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
Above all, beware of compromises. Hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others fads through the greed of getting supporters. Your atman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of ?
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
This too, shall pass.
The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
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 ? ''
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.