Inspirational Quotes
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
Talkers are no good doers.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
Let's roll.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
Live life to the fullest.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
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.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
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.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
If you would create something, you must be something.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".
The time is always right to do what is right.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
We have not yet begun to fight.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.
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.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.