Inspirational Quotes
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
Begin with the end in mind.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
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 stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
In imagination, there's no limitation.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
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.
Success is a journey not a destination.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
Happiness is a choice.
One man with courage is a majority.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
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.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
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.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.