Inspirational Quotes
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
There is time for everything.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
Don't go through life, grow through life.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
The show must go on.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
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.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Change comes from within.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
This too, shall pass.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
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
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
Success is a journey not a destination.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is ; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
Make the second effort your second nature.
Let thy words be few.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
Security is a kind of death.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
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 ?
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
I assume everybody thinks they're a top-five quarterback. I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?