Inspirational Quotes
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
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.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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.
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.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
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.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
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.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.