Inspirational Quotes
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
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.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
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.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
Happiness is a choice.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
Anything is possible.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
Don't water your weeds.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
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.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
Well done is better than well said.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Experience is the best teacher.
Above all to thine own self be true.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
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.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.