Inspirational Quotes
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.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
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.
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
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.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
If it is to be it is up to me.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin , it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene , if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.
All work is empty save when there is love.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
If you would create something, you must be something.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Talkers are no good doers.
The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
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.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
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.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
Happiness is a choice.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
None are homely who smile.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Never say more than is necessary.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.