Inspirational Quotes
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Adventure is worthwhile.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
This too, shall pass.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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 see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
Truth fears no questions.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
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.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Each action can be the one on which all depends , what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment'.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
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.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
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 long run, we only hit what we aim at.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Embrace that it's ok to grow.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
Happiness is the indication that man has found the answer to the problem of human existence the productive realization of his potentialities and thus, simultaneously, being one with the world and preserving the integrity of his self.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
Faith can move mountains.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Grow deep - not just tall.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.