Inspirational Quotes
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
Without a general an army is lost.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Well done is better than well said.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
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.
Do what you love and the money will follow
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
Don't think it, ink it.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
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.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
God doesn't make junk.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Happiness is a choice.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
Grow deep - not just tall.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.