Inspirational Quotes
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
The sun will come up tomorrow
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
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.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
Begin with the end in mind.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
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 ?
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.
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.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
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.
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
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.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Live with passion.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
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.
Love understands all languages.
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
Happiness is a state of activity.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.