Inspirational Quotes
In love beggar and king are equal.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
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.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
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.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.
Know thyself.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
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.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
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.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
You become what you think about.
Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .
The cherokee people are not "my people".
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
Find the good -- and praise it.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
No man is wise enough by himself.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Life is what you make it.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.