Inspirational Quotes
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
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.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" through the greed of getting supporters.
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.
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
Nothing succeeds like success.
The buck stops here.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
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.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
Let's roll.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
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.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Actions speak louder than words.
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
I light my candle from their torches.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Never Quit.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
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.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Success is a journey not a destination.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
You become what you think about.