Inspirational Quotes
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
A bold onset is half the battle.
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.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
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.
My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
Slow but steady wins the race.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
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.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
We need to embrace that the things that we love come to an end. And to not take them for granted. To step back & make sure we really live in the moments which matter to us. Not just being there as a participant. But to really be there a 100%.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Many hands make light work.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
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.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
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.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
Those who laugh - last!!
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
Faith can move mountains.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.