Inspirational Quotes
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
Change comes from within.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
High expectations are the key to everything.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
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.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
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.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
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.
Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself.vivekanand.com http : www.indies.co.in
There are no gains without pains.
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.