Inspirational Quotes
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
The best way out is always through.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
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 ?
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
If it is to be it is up to me.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
Never spend your money before you have it.
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
It's never too late.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
There is no education like adversity.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
Don't think it, ink it.
No man is wise enough by himself.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
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.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.
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Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
There are no gains without pains.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.