Inspirational Quotes
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
Great men are not always wise.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
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.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
To ask the hard question is simple.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
It's always too soon to quit !
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
A bold onset is half the battle.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
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.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
Embrace that it's ok to grow.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
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.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.