Inspirational Quotes
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
No pain, No gain.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
The show must go on.
I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
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.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
Happiness is the indication that man has found the answer to the problem of human existence the productive realization of his potentialities and thus, simultaneously, being one with the world and preserving the integrity of his self.
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
No one became poor by giving alms.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
Happiness is a choice.
Attitude is everything.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Change comes from within.