Inspirational Quotes
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
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.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
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.
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.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
They can because they think they can.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Every dog has his day.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
Be all you can be.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
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.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
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.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
Be the best that you can be.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
Believe in yourself.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
The beginning is the half of every action.
You become what you think about.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.