Inspirational Quotes
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
Anything is possible.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Success is a journey not a destination.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
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 ?'
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
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.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
Action is the antidote to despair.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moments you reject all help, are you free. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life.
Seize the day.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
To ask the hard question is simple.
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.
The best things in life are free.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
Where there's life, there's hope.
Hunker down.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.