Inspirational Quotes
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
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.
The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
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.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
Success is a journey not a destination.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
Well done is better than well said.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
Do what you love and the money will follow
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
There are no gains without pains.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
I think therefore I am
Live life with passion.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
Children are all foreigners.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
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.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.