Inspirational Quotes
Anything is possible.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
You become what you think about.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
Follow your dreams.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
Above all, beware of compromises. Hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others fads through the greed of getting supporters. Your atman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of ?
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
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.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
I am the captain of my soul.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
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.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
The best things in life are not things.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
No involvement, no commitment.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
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.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.