Inspirational Quotes
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
After your jump, the net appears.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
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.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
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.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
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.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
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.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
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.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
My life is my message.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
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.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
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.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
Live with passion.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.