Inspirational Quotes
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Security is a kind of death.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
Grow deep - not just tall.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
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.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
Never say die.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Do it now !
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
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.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
Kind words conquer.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
Hard work pays off.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
No man is wise enough by himself.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
Success is the child of audacity.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
Laughter is the best medicine.
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.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
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.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !