Inspirational Quotes
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
Every human heart is human.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
Tough times never last but tough people do.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
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 !
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
Where there's life, there's hope.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Change comes from within.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
Be all you can be.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
Begin with the end in mind.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of : Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, and the full fledged devotion to god. Faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers.
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
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.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
Without a general an army is lost.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
Children are all foreigners.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
The sun will come up tomorrow
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
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.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true, this I have learnt after suffering all my life, all else is mere moonshine.