Inspirational Quotes
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
Obstacles are great incentives.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
Practice makes perfect.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
Be who you are in every situation.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
High expectations are the key to everything.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Never, never, never give up.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
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.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.