Inspirational Quotes
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
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 leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
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.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
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.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
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.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
You always succeed in producing a result.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
Children are all foreigners.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
No one became poor by giving alms.
If you would create something, you must be something.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
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.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
Live with passion !