Inspirational Quotes
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Where there's life, there's hope.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
None are homely who smile.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
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.
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.
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.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
It's always too soon to quit !
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
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.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Strike while the iron is hot.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.