Inspirational Quotes
Carpe diem.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
To ask the hard question is simple.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Love understands all languages.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
Do or do not, there is no try.
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
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.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
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.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Happiness is a choice.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Anything is possible.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
Only the educated are free.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.