Inspirational Quotes
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
You must motivate yourself every day.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
Whatever it takes !
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
To ask the hard question is simple.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
Above all, beware of compromises. Hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others fads through the greed of getting supporters. Your atman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of ?
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
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.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
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.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
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%.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
You become what you think about.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
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.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Seize the day.
Well done is better than well said.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Let thy words be few.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon- instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
I light my candle from their torches.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
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.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.