Inspirational Quotes
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
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.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Children are all foreigners.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
No pain, No gain.
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.'
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
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.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
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.
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
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.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
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.
Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?