Inspirational Quotes
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
Embrace your inner voice.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
None are homely who smile.
Life is what you make it.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
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.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
The buck stops here.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
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.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
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.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
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.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Never complain about what you permit.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
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.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
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.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed