Inspirational Quotes
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Ability is sexless.
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
Happiness is a choice.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
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.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
Without a general an army is lost.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
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.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
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 it is to be it is up to me.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Success is a journey not a destination.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
We have not yet begun to fight.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
Don't think it, ink it.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.