Inspirational Quotes
Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
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
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
Every dog has his day.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
Hope springs eternal.
A bold onset is half the battle.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Strike while the iron is hot.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
Things do not change we change.
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.
The beginning is the half of every action.
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
The buck stops here.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Don't fear, just live right.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
It is always your next move.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
Obstacles are great incentives.
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
I am the captain of my soul.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
The sun will come up tomorrow
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Ideas without action are worthless.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.