Inspirational Quotes
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
The buck stops here.
Live with passion !
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
Truth fears no questions.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
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.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
Embrace your inner voice.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
Keep away from small 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.
If there is a will, there is a way.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
You must motivate yourself every day.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
There is no education like adversity.
You become what you think about.
Security is a kind of death.
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
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.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
He who hesitates is lost.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
Happiness is the indication that man has found the answer to the problem of human existence the productive realization of his potentialities and thus, simultaneously, being one with the world and preserving the integrity of his self.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
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.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.