Inspirational Quotes
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
One man with courage is a majority.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
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.
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
I never read a food column and think 'Wow I value your opinion' because everyone has an opinion now. What makes a columnist an expert? If you stay focused on your own goal, you'll be fine. It's when you start looking too far out that you're going to get lost.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall , but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
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.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.
Ideas without action are worthless.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
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.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
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.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
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.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
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.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
Don't ever give up.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.