Inspirational Quotes
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
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.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
There is no substitute for hard work.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
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.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
No involvement, no commitment.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Laughter is the best medicine.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
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.
You only get out what you put in.
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.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
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.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
We must be the change we wish to see.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
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.
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
The best things in life are not things.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.