Inspirational Quotes
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
Hard work pays off.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
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.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Let's roll.
The best things in life are free.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
Embrace that it's ok to grow.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?
Hope springs eternal.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
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.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
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
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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 ?
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
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.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
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.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
In all the other movies that I’ve done, as well as my life. You know, I’ve been tagged. I guess we all have been tagged, right? We’re all alive. Right here, right now! This is happening. We’re alive!
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
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.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.