Inspirational Quotes
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
There is no education like adversity.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
Practice makes perfect.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
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.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
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.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
Never stop dreaming.
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.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
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.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.