Inspirational Quotes
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
Count your blessings.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
It ain't over till it's over.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
Many hands make light work.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
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.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Carpe diem.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Live life to the fullest.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.
Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
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 aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
Security is a kind of death.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
Things do not change we change.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.