Inspirational Quotes
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
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.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
You create your reality.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
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.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
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.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcomed invaluable, but it does not free him from responsibility.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
What ever you are be a good one.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
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 must do the things you think you cannot do.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself.vivekanand.com http : www.indies.co.in
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
Don't water your weeds.
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Ability is sexless.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
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 ?
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
Where there's life, there's hope.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.