Inspirational Quotes
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
Great oaks from little acorns grow
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
You only get out what you put in.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
Above all to thine own self be true.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
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.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
Never say die.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.