Inspirational Quotes
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
Laughter is the best medicine.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
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.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
The truth is more important than the facts.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
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 ?
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
Never say die.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
Remove failure as an option.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !
Hunker down.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Every artist was first an amateur.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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 ?
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
If it is to be it is up to me.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
Only the educated are free.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
God doesn't make junk.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
The book you don't read cant help.
The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true, this I have learnt after suffering all my life, all else is mere moonshine.
The time is always right to do what is right.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
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.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
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.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step