Inspirational Quotes
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.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
You create your reality.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed
Do or do not, there is no try.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
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.
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
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.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
A bold onset is half the battle.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
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.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
Remove failure as an option.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
I assume everybody thinks they're a top-five quarterback. I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true, this I have learnt after suffering all my life, all else is mere moonshine.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
Live life to the fullest.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?