Inspirational Quotes
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
Above all, beware of compromises. Hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others fads through the greed of getting supporters. Your atman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of ?
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
You always succeed in producing a result.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
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?
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
The world belongs to the energetic.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
Above all to thine own self be true.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
It's always too soon to quit !
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
After your jump, the net appears.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
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 ?
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
It's not about the money. It's about what you feel you deserve.