Inspirational Quotes
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
Never say more than is necessary.
It ain't over till it's over.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Be the best that you can be.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
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 ?
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
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.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
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
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
Practice makes perfect.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
May you live all the days of your life.
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.
The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Life is what you make it.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
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.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
It's always too soon to quit !
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.