Inspirational Quotes
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
Be the best that you can be.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
After every happiness comes misery, they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature, both are chains -- one iron, one gold , behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change , but the nature of the atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it, only wash away the dross and see it.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
The best things in life are not things.
Faith can move mountains.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
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.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
The truth is more important than the facts.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
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.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
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.
Be who you are in every situation.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Well done is better than well said.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
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.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.