Inspirational Quotes
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
You always succeed in producing a result.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
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.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
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.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
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.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
Where there's life, there's hope.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
Most ball games are lost, not won.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
Let thy words be few.
Hope springs eternal.
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
I light my candle from their torches.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
I love Ray, and I love how he always spoke from the heart, but if you listened to those speeches, a lot of them didn't even make sense. He meant everything he was saying, but I didn't know what he was talking about 90 percent of the time.
The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
Don't quit.
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.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.