Inspirational Quotes
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
The best things in life are not things.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
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.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
If it is to be it is up to me.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
Happiness is a state of activity.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
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.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
Our intentions create our reality.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall , but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
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.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.