Inspirational Quotes
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
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.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
The book you don't read cant help.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
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.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
Whatever you are be a good one.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
You always succeed in producing a result.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
High expectations are the key to everything.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
Never Quit.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
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.
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
Don't sweat the small stuff.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
Talkers are no good doers.