Inspirational Quotes
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
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.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
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.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
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.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
Attitude determines altitude.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
Practice makes perfect.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
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.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
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.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
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.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.
Be all you can be.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
Strike while the iron is hot.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.