Inspirational Quotes
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
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.
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 greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Live with passion !
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
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.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
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.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Every dog has his day.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
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.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Ideas... they have the power
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
You must motivate yourself every day.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
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.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
The ready back gets all the loads.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
Find the good -- and praise it.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.