Inspirational Quotes
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
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.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
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.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
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.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded
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.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
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.
This too, shall pass.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
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
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of : Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, and the full fledged devotion to god. Faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
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.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
To ask the hard question is simple.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
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 ?
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
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.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
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.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
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.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
Remove failure as an option.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
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.
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Children are all foreigners.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
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. Discover.