Inspirational Quotes
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.
He who hesitates is lost !
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
The ready back gets all the loads.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
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.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
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.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
Be all you can be.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
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.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
The beginning is the half of every action.
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.
Never Quit.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
Keep the Faith.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
The past does not equal the future.
We need to embrace that the things that we love come to an end. And to not take them for granted. To step back & make sure we really live in the moments which matter to us. Not just being there as a participant. But to really be there a 100%.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
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.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.