Inspirational Quotes
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
Ideas... they have the power
He who has great power should use it lightly.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
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.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
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?
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
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.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
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.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
Find the good -- and praise it.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
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.
This is the beginning of a new day.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
Let's roll.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
Unfortunately, most of the students in martial art are conformers. The student seldom learns to depend upon himself for expression. Instead, he faithfully or blindly follows an instructor, the authority figure, and his instructor's imposed pattern. That way, the student feels he is no longer alone and finds security in mass imitation. However, what is nurtured is the dependent mind rather than independent inquiry, which is so essential to genuine understanding. So through daily conditioning a student will probably be skilled according to a pattern, however, he will not come to understand himself.
Don't fear, just live right.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.