Inspirational Quotes
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
Don't be hard on yourself. Embrace your journey with kindness and patience, recognizing that every step, even the small ones, is a part of your growth.
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
The ready back gets all the loads.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
Without a general an army is lost.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
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.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
One man with courage is a majority.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
Ideas without action are worthless.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
The beginning is the half of every action.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
Practice makes perfect.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
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.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
If you would create something, you must be something.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
This is the beginning of a new day.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.