Inspirational Quotes
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
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.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
Old love does not rust.
Strike while the iron is hot.
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.
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
Each action can be the one on which all depends , what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment'.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
You are what you think you are.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
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.
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.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
Well done is better than well said.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
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
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
Be Here Now.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.