Inspirational Quotes
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to god.
Do what you love and the money will follow
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
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.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
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.
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is ; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
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.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
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.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
None are homely who smile.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
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.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
To go fast, row slowly.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
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.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
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.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
Where there's life, there's hope.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
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.
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.
Old love does not rust.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.