Inspirational Quotes
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
Success is predictable.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
Ideas without action are worthless.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
In love beggar and king are equal.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Follow your dreams.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
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.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Be the best that you can be.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
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.
Never stop dreaming.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.