Inspirational Quotes
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
We have not yet begun to fight.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
You are today where your thoughts have brought
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
We need to embrace that the things that we love come to an end. And to not take them for granted. To step back & make sure we really live in the moments which matter to us. Not just being there as a participant. But to really be there a 100%.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
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 ?
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.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
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.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
Kindness is always fashionable.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Anything is possible.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
Live life to the fullest.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.