Inspirational Quotes
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
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.
Live your life and forget your age.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
To ask the hard question is simple.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
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 rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
Don't quit.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
The ready back gets all the loads.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon- instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
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.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
My friends are my estate.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
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.
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.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
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.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
The road to success is always under construction.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
Carpe diem.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.