Inspirational Quotes
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Success is a journey not a destination.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon- instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
Find the good -- and praise it.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
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.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
Ideas... they have the power
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
Those who laugh - last!!
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
This is the beginning of a new day.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Above all, beware of compromises. Hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others fads through the greed of getting supporters. Your atman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of ?
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
Remove failure as an option.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.