Inspirational Quotes
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
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.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
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 ?'
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
Love conquers all.
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
May you live all the days of your life.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
Never complain about what you permit.
He who hesitates is lost !
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
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 memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
I do not believe in styles anymore. I do not believe that there is such a thing as the Chinese way of fighting or the Japanese way of fighting, or any other way of fighting, because unless a human being has three arms and four legs, there can be no different form of fighting. To me, ultimately, martial art means honestly expressing yourself.
He who hesitates is lost.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
They are able because they think they are able.
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
It's always too soon to quit !
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
We will either find a way or make one.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.