Inspirational Quotes
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
After your jump, the net appears.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
He who has hope has everything.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
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.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
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.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
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.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
Success is a journey not a destination.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
We need to embrace that the things that we love come to an end. And to not take them for granted. To step back & make sure we really live in the moments which matter to us. Not just being there as a participant. But to really be there a 100%.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
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.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
Every human heart is human.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
Live your life and forget your age.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".
You only get out what you put in.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.