Inspirational Quotes
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
You're as old as you behave.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
Don't ever give up.
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Kind words conquer.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
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.
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
Make the second effort your second nature.
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.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
Roll with the punches.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
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.
Don't think it, ink it.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
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.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
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.
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.
Practice makes perfect.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
Faith can move mountains.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
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.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
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.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
Embrace your inner voice.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
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.