Inspirational Quotes
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
You are made from the same energy source that has created the oceans, the forests, the mountains, the valleys and all the stars in the sky. So tell me again, why you don't have the strength and power to create whatever you desire?
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
No pain, No gain.
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.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
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.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
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.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
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 ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Anything is possible.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
Seize the day.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Fortune favors the brave.
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
You always succeed in producing a result.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Ability is sexless.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.