Inspirational Quotes
It's always too soon to quit !
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
Truth fears no questions.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
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.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
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.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
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.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
Well done is better than well said.
Never stop dreaming.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
Action is the antidote to despair.
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.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
Be the change you want to see in the world.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Remove failure as an option.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
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.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
No man is wise enough by himself.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.