Inspirational Quotes
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Think and grow rich.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
Kind words conquer.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
I assume everybody thinks they're a top-five quarterback. I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
Attitude determines altitude.
How far you go in life depends on your 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.
Action is the antidote to despair.
High expectations are the key to everything.
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.
Only the educated are free.
No one became poor by giving alms.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
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.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
You are what you think you are.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
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.
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only