Inspirational Quotes
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
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Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
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.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
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.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
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 ?
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.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
Things do not change we change.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.