Inspirational Quotes
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Kindness is always fashionable.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
Above all to thine own self be true.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
Our intentions create our reality.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
After every happiness comes misery, they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature, both are chains -- one iron, one gold , behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change , but the nature of the atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it, only wash away the dross and see it.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
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.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
Ability is sexless.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
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.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
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.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
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.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
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.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
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.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.