Inspirational Quotes
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
Every artist was first an amateur.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
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.
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
You only get out what you put in.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
The sun will come up tomorrow
Roll with the punches.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
Without a general an army is lost.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
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.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
No involvement, no commitment.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
No one became poor by giving alms.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
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.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.