Inspirational Quotes
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
Obstacles are great incentives.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
There are no gains without pains.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
If it is to be it is up to me.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
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.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
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.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
Know thyself.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
May you live all the days of your life.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.