Inspirational Quotes
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
Be Here Now.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Actions speak louder than words.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
You become what you think about.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
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.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
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 !
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
Without a general an army is lost.
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.
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.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
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 know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Above all, beware of compromises. Hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others fads through the greed of getting supporters. Your atman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of ?
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Change your thoughts, change your life.