Inspirational Quotes
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
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.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
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.
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
A bold onset is half the battle.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
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.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
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.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
We will either find a way or make one.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
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.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
Don't think it, ink it.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
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.
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.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.