Inspirational Quotes
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
I assume everybody thinks they're a top-five quarterback. I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
Never stop dreaming.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
The best way out is always through.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
Those who laugh - last!!
The beginning is the half of every action.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.
Attitude is everything.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Live your life and forget your age.