Inspirational Quotes
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
Carpe diem.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
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.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
Change comes from within.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
Do it now !
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
They can because they think they can.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
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.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.