Inspirational Quotes
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
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.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
Hard work pays off.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
For with god all things are possible.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
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.
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Nothing succeeds like success.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
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.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
Keep the Faith.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
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.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
This too, shall pass.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
Actions speak louder than words.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming 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.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
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.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.