Inspirational Quotes
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
Keep the Faith.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true, this I have learnt after suffering all my life, all else is mere moonshine.
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.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
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.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
No involvement, no commitment.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
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.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
I light my candle from their torches.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.