Inspirational Quotes
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
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.
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.
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
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 !
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
It ain't over till it's over.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
Whatever it takes !
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
Remove failure as an option.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
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.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
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.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
The best way out is always through.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
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.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.