Inspirational Quotes
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
I never read a food column and think 'Wow I value your opinion' because everyone has an opinion now. What makes a columnist an expert? If you stay focused on your own goal, you'll be fine. It's when you start looking too far out that you're going to get lost.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
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.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
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.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
Nothing succeeds like success.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
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.
Fortune favors the brave.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Talkers are no good doers.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
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.'
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
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.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
Success leaves clues.