Inspirational Quotes
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
Happiness is a state of mind.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
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.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
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.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
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.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
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.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
The truth is more important than the facts.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
Many hands make light work.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
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.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
Success is the child of audacity.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
Above all to thine own self be true.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
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.
If it is to be it is up to me.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Never complain about what you permit.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.
The beginning is the half of every action.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Think and grow rich.
Better late than never.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.