Inspirational Quotes
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
Begin with the end in mind.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
Embrace your inner voice.
Practice makes perfect.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
My friends are my estate.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
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.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
There are no gains without pains.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
Kind words conquer.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
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.