Inspirational Quotes
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
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.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
After your jump, the net appears.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
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.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
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.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
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.
Let thy words be few.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Do it now !
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Attitude determines altitude.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
Nature does nothing uselessly.
Many hands make light work.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
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
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.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
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.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
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.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.