Inspirational Quotes
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
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 only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
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.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
To go fast, row slowly.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
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.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
Success leaves clues.
But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin , it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene , if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
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.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
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.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
My friends are my estate.
We must be the change we wish to see.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
Nothing succeeds like success.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
Pep without purpose is piffle.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
I am the captain of my soul.