Inspirational Quotes
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
The best things in life are not things.
Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
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.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Where there's life, there's hope.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
No pain, No gain.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Be Here Now.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
He who stops being better stops being good.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
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.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
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.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
Action is the antidote to despair.
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
May you live all the days of your life.
There are no gains without pains.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
High expectations are the key to everything.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
He who hesitates is lost !
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
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.