Inspirational Quotes
Where there is a will, there is a way.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Begin with the end in mind.
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Hope springs eternal.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Seize the day.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
The time is always right to do what is right.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
This too, shall pass.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcomed invaluable, but it does not free him from responsibility.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true, this I have learnt after suffering all my life, all else is mere moonshine.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.