Inspirational Quotes
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
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.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
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.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall , but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
Follow your dreams.
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.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
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.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
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.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
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.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Embrace that it's ok to grow.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
Don't quit.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.