Inspirational Quotes
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
I am the captain of my soul.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
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.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
It is always your next move.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
No man is wise enough by himself.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
For with god all things are possible.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
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.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
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.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
The beginning is the half of every action.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
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.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
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.
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.