Inspirational Quotes
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
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 ?
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
After every happiness comes misery, they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature, both are chains -- one iron, one gold , behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change , but the nature of the atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it, only wash away the dross and see it.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
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.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
This is the beginning of a new day.
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
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.
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
Things do not change we change.
Great men are not always wise.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Success is a journey not a destination.
Many hands make light work.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
It's never too late.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.