Inspirational Quotes
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Believe in yourself.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
Above all, beware of compromises. Hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others fads through the greed of getting supporters. Your atman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of ?
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
May you live all the days of your life.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
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.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
Success is predictable.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
This too, shall pass.
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.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
If you would create something, you must be something.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
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.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.