Inspirational Quotes
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
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.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
The show must go on.
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.
Life is what you make it.
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
Action is the antidote to despair.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
I am the captain of my soul.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
Keep the Faith.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
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?
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
You become what you think about.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
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.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
They can because they think they can.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
In love beggar and king are equal.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
Every artist was first an amateur.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow