Inspirational Quotes
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.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
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 storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
Whatever you are be a good one.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
All work is empty save when there is love.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
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.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Well done is better than well said.
Laughter is the best medicine.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
High expectations are the key to everything.
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.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
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.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
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.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
I assume everybody thinks they're a top-five quarterback. I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.