Inspirational Quotes
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Don't water your weeds.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
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
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
Every artist was first an amateur.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
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.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
My friends are my estate.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
The best things in life are free.
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 ?
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
One man with courage is a majority.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
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.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Success is never wondering what if.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
Never complain about what you permit.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
You are what you think you are.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
It's never too late.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?