Inspirational Quotes
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
Follow your dreams.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Happiness is the indication that man has found the answer to the problem of human existence the productive realization of his potentialities and thus, simultaneously, being one with the world and preserving the integrity of his self.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
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.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
Every human heart is human.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
We will either find a way or make one.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
Security is a kind of death.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
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.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
Don't ever give up.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
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'.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.