Inspirational Quotes
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
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.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Kind words conquer.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
Live life with passion.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
The best things in life are not things.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
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.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
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.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
Experience is the best teacher.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
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.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
In love beggar and king are equal.