Inspirational Quotes
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
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
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.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
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.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.
The show must go on.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
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.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
The truth is more important than the facts.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Think and grow rich.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
For with god all things are possible.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
Whatever it takes !
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
Don't think it, ink it.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.