Inspirational Quotes
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 ?
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
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.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
My life is my message.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
They alone live, who live for others.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
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.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
Talkers are no good doers.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
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.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
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.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
They can because they think they can.
How far you go in life depends on you 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.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.