Inspirational Quotes
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
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.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
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.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Make the second effort your second nature.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
Nothing succeeds like success.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
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.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
Don't think it, ink it.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
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.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
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.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.