Inspirational Quotes
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
Embrace your inner voice.
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
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.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Don't water your weeds.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
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.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
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.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
Truth fears no questions.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
The book you don't read cant help.
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''.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
Don't ever give up.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
You only get out what you put in.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
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.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
Do or do not, there is no try.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.