Inspirational Quotes
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.
My friends are my estate.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.
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 most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
Love conquers all.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
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.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
Hard work pays off.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
It's never too late.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
Live life with passion.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
No one became poor by giving alms.
Every dog has his day.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.