Inspirational Quotes
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
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.
Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Reach for the stars.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
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.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
It's always too soon to quit !
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
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.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
May you live all the days of your life.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
You become what you think about.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
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.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of : Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, and the full fledged devotion to god. Faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
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.
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
Carpe diem.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
Let's roll.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
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.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
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.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
Let thy words be few.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.