Inspirational Quotes
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.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
Live with passion !
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
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.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
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.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
Don't water your weeds.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
He who stops being better stops being good.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
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.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
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.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
The book you don't read cant help.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
You can do what you want to do.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
You must motivate yourself every day.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses 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 ?
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
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.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.