Inspirational Quotes
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Obstacles are great incentives.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Do what you love and the money will follow
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
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.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
Be all you can be.
High expectations are the key to everything.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
No one became poor by giving alms.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
What ever you are be a good one.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
Things do not change we change.
Success is a journey not a destination.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Be the best that you can be.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moments you reject all help, are you free. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !