Inspirational Quotes
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
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.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
Strike while the iron is hot.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Live life to the fullest.
I never read a food column and think 'Wow I value your opinion' because everyone has an opinion now. What makes a columnist an expert? If you stay focused on your own goal, you'll be fine. It's when you start looking too far out that you're going to get lost.
Roll with the punches.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
You become what you think about.
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.
Make the second effort your second nature.
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
Hard work pays off.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
Every artist was first an amateur.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
You must motivate yourself every day.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
Live with passion !
Great men are not always wise.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
Keep away from 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.
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.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.