Inspirational Quotes
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
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.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
Honesty is the best image.
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.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
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.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
Kind words conquer.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Above all to thine own self be true.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
Happiness is a choice.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
It ain't over till it's over.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
Whatever you are be a good one.
Security is a kind of death.
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.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
There is time for everything.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
He who hesitates is lost !
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.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.