Inspirational Quotes
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
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 person does not hear.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Embrace your inner voice.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
Success is a journey not a destination.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
God doesn't make junk.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
You become what you think about.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
You are made from the same energy source that has created the oceans, the forests, the mountains, the valleys and all the stars in the sky. So tell me again, why you don't have the strength and power to create whatever you desire?
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
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.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
Live with passion.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Happiness is a state of activity.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.