Inspirational Quotes
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
Hope springs eternal.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Attitude is everything.
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.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
The time is always right to do what is right.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
The show must go on.
Live your life and forget your age.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
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.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
I think therefore I am
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
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.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
High expectations are the key to everything.
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.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
Success is predictable.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.