Inspirational Quotes
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
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.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
Faith can move mountains.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
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.
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
Actions speak louder than words.
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
We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
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.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Whatever it takes !
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
No one became poor by giving alms.
Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
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.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.