Inspirational Quotes
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
A bold onset is half the battle.
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
The past does not equal the future.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
The beginning is the half of every action.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Whatever it takes !
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
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.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
Success is the child of audacity.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
Live life with passion.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
Well done is better than well said.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?