Inspirational Quotes
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
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.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
In love beggar and king are equal.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
No man is wise enough by himself.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
Every human heart is human.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
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.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
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If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Above all to thine own self be true.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
The beginning is the half of every action.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
You only get out what you put in.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
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.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.