Inspirational Quotes
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join 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.
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
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.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
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.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Success is the child of audacity.
Roll with the punches.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
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.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
If you would create something, you must be something.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
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.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
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.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
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.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
It's never too late.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
The successful man is the average man, focused.