Inspirational Quotes
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
I do not believe in styles anymore. I do not believe that there is such a thing as the Chinese way of fighting or the Japanese way of fighting, or any other way of fighting, because unless a human being has three arms and four legs, there can be no different form of fighting. To me, ultimately, martial art means honestly expressing yourself.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
Happiness is a state of activity.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
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.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
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.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Practice makes perfect.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
Talkers are no good doers.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
You become what you think about.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
Success is a journey not a destination.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.
Do it now !
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
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 !
Nothing succeeds like success.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
Know thyself.
The sun will come up tomorrow
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Whatever you are be a good one.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.