Inspirational Quotes
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
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.
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
Make the second effort your second nature.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.
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.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Kindness is always fashionable.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
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
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
The ready back gets all the loads.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
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.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
It's always too soon to quit !
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
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''.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
Let's roll.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
If there is a will, there is a way.
Procrastination is the thief of time.