Inspirational Quotes
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
Whatever it takes !
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
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.
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.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
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.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
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.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
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.
Count your blessings.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
Actions speak louder than words.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
All work is empty save when there is love.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
Ability is sexless.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
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.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
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.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.