Inspirational Quotes
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
Don't think it, ink it.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
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.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
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.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
If you would create something, you must be something.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
In all the other movies that I’ve done, as well as my life. You know, I’ve been tagged. I guess we all have been tagged, right? We’re all alive. Right here, right now! This is happening. We’re alive!
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
Hunker down.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
After every happiness comes misery, they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature, both are chains -- one iron, one gold , behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change , but the nature of the atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it, only wash away the dross and see it.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
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.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.