Inspirational Quotes
It's never too late.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big 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 never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
We need to embrace that the things that we love come to an end. And to not take them for granted. To step back & make sure we really live in the moments which matter to us. Not just being there as a participant. But to really be there a 100%.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
If it is to be it is up to me.
Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".
The truth is more important than the facts.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
My friends are my estate.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
Never say die.
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.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
Our intentions create our reality.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
Strike while the iron is hot.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
What ever you are be a good one.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.