Inspirational Quotes
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
You become what you think about.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
Do what you love and the money will follow
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
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.
He who hesitates is lost.
The time is always right to do what is right.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
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.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
The best way out is always through.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
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.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
The best things in life are not things.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
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.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
God doesn't make junk.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
No involvement, no commitment.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Follow your dreams.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.