Inspirational Quotes
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
The way we see the problem is the problem.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
Fortune favors the brave.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
The book you don't read cant help.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Happiness is a choice.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
I think therefore I am
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
All work is empty save when there is love.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
None are homely who smile.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
They are able because they think they are able.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
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.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
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.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Count your blessings.
Remove failure as an option.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
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.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.