Inspirational Quotes
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
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.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
He who stops being better stops being good.
Attitude determines altitude.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
Find the good -- and praise it.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
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.
Every dog has his day.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
You can do what you want to do.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
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.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
All work is empty save when there is love.
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
Every artist was first an amateur.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Happiness is a choice.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.