Inspirational Quotes
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
Never complain about what you permit.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
You're as old as you behave.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
I am the captain of my soul.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
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.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
Life is change, growth is optional. Choose wisely.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
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.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
Do or do not, there is no try.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
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.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
Obstacles are great incentives.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.