Inspirational Quotes
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.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
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.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
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.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
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.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
I love Ray, and I love how he always spoke from the heart, but if you listened to those speeches, a lot of them didn't even make sense. He meant everything he was saying, but I didn't know what he was talking about 90 percent of the time.
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.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
What ever you are be a good one.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
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.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
We need to embrace that the things that we love come to an end. And to not take them for granted. To step back & make sure we really live in the moments which matter to us. Not just being there as a participant. But to really be there a 100%.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
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.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.