Inspirational Quotes
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
Without a general an army is lost.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
Live your dreams.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
Many hands make light work.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Never stop dreaming.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
Every artist was first an amateur.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
This is the beginning of a new day.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
None are homely who smile.
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.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Fortune favors the brave.
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
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 ?
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
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.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.