Inspirational Quotes
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
Do what you love and the money will follow
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
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.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
To go fast, row slowly.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
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. Discover.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" through the greed of getting supporters.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
Follow your dreams.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
This is the beginning of a new day.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
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.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Well done is better than well said.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
Don't quit.