Inspirational Quotes
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
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.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
Success is predictable.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
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.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
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.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
After every happiness comes misery, they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature, both are chains -- one iron, one gold , behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change , but the nature of the atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it, only wash away the dross and see it.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
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.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
I light my candle from their torches.