Inspirational Quotes
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
Those who laugh - last!!
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
Little strokes fell great oaks.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
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?
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
Success is never wondering what if.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
You become what you think about.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
Be Here Now.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
This too, shall pass.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.