Inspirational Quotes
Truth fears no questions.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
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.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
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.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
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.
The world belongs to the energetic.
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.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
Ideas without action are worthless.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
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.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
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.
Let's roll.
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
Faith can move mountains.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
Children are all foreigners.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
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.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".
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.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.