Inspirational Quotes
Live your dreams.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
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.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
Don't fear, just live right.
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.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
Be all you can be.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
Ideas without action are worthless.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
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.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
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.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
High expectations are the key to everything.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
It's always too soon to quit !
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
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.
Security is a kind of death.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Every dog has his day.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
Each action can be the one on which all depends , what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment'.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.