Inspirational Quotes
Security is a kind of death.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
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.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
Every dog has his day.
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.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
A bold onset is half the battle.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Do or do not, there is no try.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
Keep the Faith.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
Anything is possible.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
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.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Live your life and forget your age.
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.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
Laughter is the best medicine.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
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.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
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.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
To go fast, row slowly.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
Truth fears no questions.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.