Inspirational Quotes
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
You become what you think about.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
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.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
Hard work pays off.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
A bold onset is half the battle.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
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.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.