Inspirational Quotes
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.'
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
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.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
The buck stops here.
Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
You always succeed in producing a result.
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.
Actions speak louder than words.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
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.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Each action can be the one on which all depends , what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment'.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
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 real valuable thing is intuition.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
Honesty is the best image.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
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.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
We must be the change we wish to see.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.