Inspirational Quotes
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
You can do anything you put your mind to.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Success is the child of audacity.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Success is a journey not a destination.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
Every dog has his day.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
Live with passion !
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
Happiness is a state of activity.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Old love does not rust.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
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.
Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.
There is time for everything.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
Ideas... they have the power
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
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.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.