Inspirational Quotes
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moments you reject all help, are you free. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
Be Here Now.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
The best things in life are not things.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
Do it now !
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
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.
Be all you can be.
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.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Slow but steady wins the race.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon- instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
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One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
We have not yet begun to fight.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
The best things in life are free.
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
The time is always right to do what is right.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
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.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
Success leaves clues.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
You become what you think about.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.