Inspirational Quotes
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
In love beggar and king are equal.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
Happiness is a choice.
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.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
There is no education like adversity.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Well done is better than well said.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
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.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
The show must go on.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
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.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself.vivekanand.com http : www.indies.co.in
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Seize the day.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Attitude is everything.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
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.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
Life is a do-it yourself project.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
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.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
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.