Inspirational Quotes
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Talkers are no good doers.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
Kind words conquer.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Grow deep - not just tall.
Kindness is always fashionable.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
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.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
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 ?
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
There is no substitute for hard work.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
Every artist was first an amateur.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
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.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
The sun will come up tomorrow