Inspirational Quotes
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
This is the beginning of a new day.
The time is always right to do what is right.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
In all the other movies that I’ve done, as well as my life. You know, I’ve been tagged. I guess we all have been tagged, right? We’re all alive. Right here, right now! This is happening. We’re alive!
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
Change comes from within.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
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.
No pain, No gain.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Every dog has his day.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
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.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
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.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
Obstacles are great incentives.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
If you can dream it, you can do it.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
The show must go on.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.
Success is a journey not a destination.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Let's roll.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Embrace your inner voice.
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.
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.