Inspirational Quotes
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
Keep the Faith.
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
There are no gains without pains.
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.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
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 ?
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
You must motivate yourself every day.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Success is predictable.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
Without a general an army is lost.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
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.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
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.