Inspirational Quotes
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
Grow deep - not just tall.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
There is time for everything.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself.vivekanand.com http : www.indies.co.in
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.
You are made from the same energy source that has created the oceans, the forests, the mountains, the valleys and all the stars in the sky. So tell me again, why you don't have the strength and power to create whatever you desire?
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
You only get out what you put in.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
The best things in life are not things.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
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.
They are able because they think they are able.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
The beginning is the half of every action.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
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.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.