Inspirational Quotes
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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.
Carpe diem.
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
They are able because they think they are able.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
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.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
All work is empty save when there is love.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
He who has hope has everything.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
No man is wise enough by himself.
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
Success is the child of audacity.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
You create your reality.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!