Inspirational Quotes
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
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.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
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 ?
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
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.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
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.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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 function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
All work is empty save when there is love.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
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.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
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.'
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
May you live all the days of your life.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
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.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
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.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.