Inspirational Quotes
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Live your dreams.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
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.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Talkers are no good doers.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
Life is change, growth is optional. Choose wisely.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
Happiness is the indication that man has found the answer to the problem of human existence the productive realization of his potentialities and thus, simultaneously, being one with the world and preserving the integrity of his self.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
Old love does not rust.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
Action is the antidote to despair.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
After every happiness comes misery, they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature, both are chains -- one iron, one gold , behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change , but the nature of the atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it, only wash away the dross and see it.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
There is time for everything.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.