Inspirational Quotes
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
Love sees roses without thorns.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
Believe in yourself.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
Follow your dreams.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Honesty is the best image.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
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.
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
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
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
You are what you think you are.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
After every happiness comes misery, they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature, both are chains -- one iron, one gold , behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change , but the nature of the atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it, only wash away the dross and see it.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
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.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
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
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
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.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.