Inspirational Quotes
Well done is better than well said.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
You are what you think you are.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
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.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
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.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
Be the best that you can be.
We will either find a way or make one.
There is no substitute for hard work.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
So whether or not we can get together, remember well that art lives where absolute freedom is. With all the training thrown to nowhere, with a mind perfectly unaware of its own working, with the self vanishing nowhere the art of JKD attains its perfection.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
If there is a will, there is a way.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
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.
Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" through the greed of getting supporters.
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
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 ?