Inspirational Quotes
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
You can do what you want to do.
The truth is more important than the facts.
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
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
Whatever you are be a good one.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
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.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
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
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
Live your life and forget your age.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Every human heart is human.
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
High expectations are the key to everything.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
Many hands make light work.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Don't quit.