Inspirational Quotes
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
Old love does not rust.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
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.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
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.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
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.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
Think and grow rich.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
Count your blessings.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Above all, beware of compromises. Hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others fads through the greed of getting supporters. Your atman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of ?
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
You can do what you want to do.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
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.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
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.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.