Inspirational Quotes
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
You can do what you want to do.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
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?
Most ball games are lost, not won.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
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.
Obstacles are great incentives.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
When we place blame, we give away our power.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Life is what you make it.
Embrace your inner voice.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.