Inspirational Quotes
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
Where there is love there is no darkness.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
It is always your next move.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
You become what you think about.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
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.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of : Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, and the full fledged devotion to god. Faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers.
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.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
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.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
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 !
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
It's always too soon to quit !
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.