Inspirational Quotes
Life is change, growth is optional. Choose wisely.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
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 ?
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
The show must go on.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
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.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
Slow but steady wins the race.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of 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.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
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.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
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.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
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.'
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.