Inspirational Quotes
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
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.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Change comes from within.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
"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.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
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.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
The show must go on.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Ideas without action are worthless.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
Believe in yourself.
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
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.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
Success is the child of audacity.
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
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.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Fortune favors the brave.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.