Inspirational Quotes
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
My life is my message.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Begin with the end in mind.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
Live your life and forget your age.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
It's never too late.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
He who has hope has everything.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
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.
The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true, this I have learnt after suffering all my life, all else is mere moonshine.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
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. '
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
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.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.