Inspirational Quotes
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
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.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
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.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
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.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
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.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
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.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
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.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
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.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
Never say more than is necessary.
Success is the child of audacity.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
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.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.