Inspirational Quotes
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
Well done is better than well said.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
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.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
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.
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.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
He who has hope has everything.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
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.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
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.
He who stops being better stops being good.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
The road to success is always under construction.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
Don't ever give up.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
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.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
You are made from the same energy source that has created the oceans, the forests, the mountains, the valleys and all the stars in the sky. So tell me again, why you don't have the strength and power to create whatever you desire?
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
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.
Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
He who hesitates is lost.
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.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.