Inspirational Quotes
Success is predictable.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
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.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
One man with courage is a majority.
Be all you can be.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
He who hesitates is lost.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
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.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
Success is the child of audacity.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
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.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
You are made from the same energy source that has created the oceans, the forests, the mountains, the valleys and all the stars in the sky. So tell me again, why you don't have the strength and power to create whatever you desire?
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
It's always too soon to quit !