Inspirational Quotes
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
The beginning is the half of every action.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
Great men are not always wise.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
He who has hope has everything.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
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.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
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.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Reach for the stars.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
Laughter is the best medicine.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
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.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
There is time for everything.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Action is the antidote to despair.
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
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.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.