Inspirational Quotes
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
The past does not equal the future.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
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.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
Don't be hard on yourself. Embrace your journey with kindness and patience, recognizing that every step, even the small ones, is a part of your growth.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Success is never wondering what if.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcomed invaluable, but it does not free him from responsibility.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
Success is a journey not a destination.
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.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
Don't think it, ink it.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
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.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
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.
After your jump, the net appears.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
It's always too soon to quit !
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
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.
We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
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.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.