Inspirational Quotes
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
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.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
Don't fear, just live right.
Above all, beware of compromises. Hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others fads through the greed of getting supporters. Your atman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of ?
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.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
High expectations are the key to everything.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Hard work pays off.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
There is no substitute for hard work.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
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.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.