Inspirational Quotes
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
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.
This is the beginning of a new day.
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
Do it now !
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Never say die.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Carpe diem.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
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.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
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.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
After every happiness comes misery, they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature, both are chains -- one iron, one gold , behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change , but the nature of the atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it, only wash away the dross and see it.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
Be Here Now.
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.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
Kind words conquer.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Count your blessings.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.