Inspirational Quotes
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
The past does not equal the future.
One man with courage is a majority.
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
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.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
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.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
Money without brains is always dangerous.
Be all you can be.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
The best way out is always through.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
Practice makes perfect.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
You become what you think about.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
You always succeed in producing a result.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Truth fears no questions.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.