Inspirational Quotes
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
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.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
Do or do not, there is no try.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Action is the antidote to despair.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
What ever you are be a good one.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.
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.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.
He who hesitates is lost !
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
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.
If you would create something, you must be something.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.