Inspirational Quotes
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
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.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.
Better late than never.
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.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
You must motivate yourself every day.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
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.
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.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
Remove failure as an option.
Talkers are no good doers.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
God doesn't make junk.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.
Love conquers all.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
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.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
For with god all things are possible.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.