Inspirational Quotes
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
Do what you love and the money will follow
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
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.
In all the other movies that I’ve done, as well as my life. You know, I’ve been tagged. I guess we all have been tagged, right? We’re all alive. Right here, right now! This is happening. We’re alive!
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Honesty is the best image.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
One man with courage is a majority.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
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.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
I love Ray, and I love how he always spoke from the heart, but if you listened to those speeches, a lot of them didn't even make sense. He meant everything he was saying, but I didn't know what he was talking about 90 percent of the time.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Adventure is worthwhile.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
Experience is the best teacher.
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.