Inspirational Quotes
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created 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.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
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.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
Count your blessings.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
Strike while the iron is hot.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Actions speak louder than words.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
Live life to the fullest.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
Make the second effort your second nature.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
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.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
You are made from the same energy source that has created the oceans, the forests, the mountains, the valleys and all the stars in the sky. So tell me again, why you don't have the strength and power to create whatever you desire?
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.