Inspirational Quotes
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
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.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Let thy words be few.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
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 ?
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
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 do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
The show must go on.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
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.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
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.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
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 ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
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 ?
He who stops being better stops being good.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
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.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for 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.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
When asked about clinching a playoff berth for Cleveland Browns during the 2023 NFL regular season - "You don't know how many of these moments you're going to get. Not too many people get the opportunity to have kids as old as mine and that understand what's going on - get to witness this. I'm going to remember this for the rest of my life. And anything that you get to do with people that you love, especially your children, they just make everything that much more special."
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.