Inspirational Quotes
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
Success is a journey not a destination.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
You really can change the world if you care enough.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
They can because they think they can.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
Obstacles are great incentives.
Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
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.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Action is the antidote to despair.
High expectations are the key to everything.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
The sun will come up tomorrow
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
No pain, No gain.
Success is predictable.
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.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
The past does not equal the future.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true, this I have learnt after suffering all my life, all else is mere moonshine.
In all the other movies that I’ve done, as well as my life. You know, I’ve been tagged. I guess we all have been tagged, right? We’re all alive. Right here, right now! This is happening. We’re alive!
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.
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.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
Never say more than is necessary.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
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.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.