Inspirational Quotes
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
Live life with passion.
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.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
Many hands make light work.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
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.
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
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.
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.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
In love beggar and king are equal.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
Live with passion !
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Be who you are in every situation.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
You are what you think you are.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
Success is never wondering what if.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.
No involvement, no commitment.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.