Inspirational Quotes
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
They alone live, who live for others.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
A bold onset is half the battle.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
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.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
He who stops being better stops being good.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
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.
You are what you think you are.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself.vivekanand.com http : www.indies.co.in
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
To go fast, row slowly.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.