Inspirational Quotes
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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.
A bold onset is half the battle.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
The ready back gets all the loads.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
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.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
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.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
Do what you love and the money will follow
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.