Inspirational Quotes
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
Live your dreams.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
Live your life and forget your age.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Ideas... they have the power
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Without a general an army is lost.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
Don't ever give up.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.