Inspirational Quotes
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
Success is a journey not a destination.
No pain, No gain.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
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.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
The buck stops here.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
He who hesitates is lost.
Love sees roses without thorns.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
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
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
You must motivate yourself every day.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
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.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
This is the beginning of a new day.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Change comes from within.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
They are able because they think they are able.
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
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 ?
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
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.