Inspirational Quotes
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
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.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
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.
No one became poor by giving alms.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
Above all to thine own self be true.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
Embrace that it's ok to grow.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
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 ?
We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
Talkers are no good doers.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
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.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
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.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
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.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
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.