Inspirational Quotes
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
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.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
Whatever it takes !
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
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.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
Find the good -- and praise it.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
After your jump, the net appears.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
You become what you think about.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
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.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
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.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
The ready back gets all the loads.