Inspirational Quotes
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
We will either find a way or make one.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
A bold onset is half the battle.
Above all to thine own self be true.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
They can because they think they can.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
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.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
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.
They alone live, who live for others.
Don't fear, just live right.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.