Inspirational Quotes
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
The book you don't read cant help.
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.
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.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
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 ?
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
Where there's life, there's hope.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Each action can be the one on which all depends , what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment'.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
Strike while the iron is hot.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
It's never too late.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
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.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
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.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
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.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
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.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.