Inspirational Quotes
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
Nothing succeeds like success.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
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.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
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.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
He who stops being better stops being good.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
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.
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.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
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.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
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.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
There is no education like adversity.
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Without a general an army is lost.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.