Inspirational Quotes
Live your dreams.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
He who stops being better stops being good.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
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?
The successful man is the average man, focused.
The best way out is always through.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
After every happiness comes misery, they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature, both are chains -- one iron, one gold , behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change , but the nature of the atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it, only wash away the dross and see it.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to god.
The road to success is always under construction.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin , it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene , if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
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.
Follow your dreams.
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.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
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.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
Success leaves clues.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
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.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.