Inspirational Quotes
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
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.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
Don't think it, ink it.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
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.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
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.
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
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.
Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
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'.
The best way out is always through.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
If it is to be it is up to me.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
A bold onset is half the battle.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
Do or do not, there is no try.
Let's roll.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.