Inspirational Quotes
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
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.
Every dog has his day.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
The show must go on.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
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.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
Don't think it, ink it.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
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.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
You always succeed in producing a result.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
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.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
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.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of : Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, and the full fledged devotion to god. Faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.