Inspirational Quotes
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
Kindness is always fashionable.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
Never spend your money before you have it.
Well done is better than well said.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Ideas without action are worthless.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
In love beggar and king are equal.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Count your blessings.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
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.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
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.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
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.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
You're as old as you behave.
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
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.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
He who stops being better stops being good.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
Hunker down.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Faith can move mountains.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Live life with passion.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '