Inspirational Quotes
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
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.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Change comes from within.
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 !
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Ideas... they have the power
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
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.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
Above all to thine own self be true.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
Never complain about what you permit.
Don't quit.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
Kindness is always fashionable.
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.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
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.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
You're as old as you behave.
I am the captain of my soul.
Seize the day.
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.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
I think therefore I am
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.'
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?