Inspirational Quotes
Slow but steady wins the race.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
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.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
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.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
Love sees roses without thorns.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
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.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.
Each action can be the one on which all depends , what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment'.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
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.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
Change comes from within.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
No man is wise enough by himself.
What ever you are be a good one.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Do what you love and the money will follow
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Above all to thine own self be true.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
Many hands make light work.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
The ready back gets all the loads.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.