Inspirational Quotes
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
Live with passion.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
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.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
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!
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
The road to success is always under construction.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Attitude is everything.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
You are what you think you are.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Find the good -- and praise it.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
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.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
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Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Anything is possible.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
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.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
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.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.