Inspirational Quotes
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Hope springs eternal.
They can because they think they can.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
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 is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Experience is the best teacher.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
Know thyself.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
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.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
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.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
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.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
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.
Live your dreams.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
It's always too soon to quit !
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
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.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.