Inspirational Quotes
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" through the greed of getting supporters.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
Every dog has his day.
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
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.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
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 ?
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.
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.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
In love beggar and king are equal.
You are made from the same energy source that has created the oceans, the forests, the mountains, the valleys and all the stars in the sky. So tell me again, why you don't have the strength and power to create whatever you desire?
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
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.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
The truth is more important than the facts.