Inspirational Quotes
We come to beginnings only at the end.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Begin with the end in mind.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
Whatever it takes !
Change comes from within.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
You can do what you want to do.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
Grow deep - not just tall.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
Action is the antidote to despair.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
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.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
Actions speak louder than words.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
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 will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
They can because they think they can.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
There are no gains without pains.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
High expectations are the key to everything.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
Ideas... they have the power
Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of : Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, and the full fledged devotion to god. Faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
There is time for everything.