Inspirational Quotes
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Do what you love and the money will follow
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
My life is my message.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
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.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
You must motivate yourself every day.
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.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
The best things in life are not things.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
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.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
It is always your next move.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
We have not yet begun to fight.
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.
If there is a will, there is a way.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
Ideas... they have the power
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
Know thyself.