Inspirational Quotes
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
Carpe diem.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
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.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
Ideas... they have the power
Love understands all languages.
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
Every human heart is human.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
We tend to live up to our expectations.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
Count your blessings.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Never Quit.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.