Inspirational Quotes
The best things in life are not things.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
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.
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.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
May you live all the days of your life.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
He who stops being better stops being good.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
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.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
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.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
Every artist was first an amateur.
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.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
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.
I light my candle from their torches.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
You can do what you want to do.