Inspirational Quotes 51

"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake."
- Victor Hugo , (French Dramatist ,Novelist & Poet)

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein. (H. Jackson Brown) There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. (Indira Gandhi) When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. -- Alexander Graham Bell "A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, Because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand."
(Bertrand Russell)

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
(George Bernard Shaw)

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
(Oprah Winfrey)

Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?
(Thomas J. Watson)

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
(Henri-Frederic Amiel)

"If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well. "
(Martin Luther King, Jr)

The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.
Johann Wolfgang Von Gothe

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered

Heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats. Bertie C. Forbes It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
(Walt Disney)

One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.
(Arnold Glasgow)

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead."
(CHANKYA)

Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them.
Jawaharlal Nehru

Don't follow the crowd, let the crowd follow you

(Margaret Thatcher)

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
Mother Teresa

An average person with average talents and ambition and average education, can outstrip the most brilliant genius in our society, if that person has clear, focused goals.
Mary Kay Ash

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
(Plato)

I haven't failed; I've found 10,000 ways that don't work.

(Thomas Edison )

Every walking moment of our lives is an opportunity to learn. Only those who possess an observant eye will reap the knowledge and wisdom of each lesson taught
(Scott Vander ford)

The only people without problems are those in cemeteries.

(Anthony Robbins)

"Be bold when you loose, be calm when you win".

Swami Vivekananda.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.
- Napoleon Hill

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.
- Brian Tracy

Pity the man who inherits a million and isn't a millionaire. Here's what would be pitiful, if your income grew and you didn't.
- Jim Rohn

"Never assume, as assume makes an ass out of u and me."

(The Mirror", 7 February 2000 )

"A new broom sweeps clean, but an old one knows all the corners."
(Jamaican Proverb)

"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself."
( Anonymous )

I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything; "I will try" has performed wonders.
George P. Burnham

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
(Barak Obama)

Sometimes, people use age as a convenient excuse. 'I'm to old too start something new', or, 'I couldn't learn that at my age.' Other people, though, go on to achieve their greatest accomplishments in life in later years.
Catherine Pulsifer

Ninety-nine percent of failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
George W. Carver

Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.
John Updike

"I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift."
Septima Poinsette Clark

"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."
-William Faulkner

"The discipline of writing something down is the first step towards making it happen."
(Lee Iacocca, former Chief Executive of the Chrysler Corporation )

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal."
- Napoleon Hill

"The are only two ways to handle tense situations: you can change them, or you can change the way you look at them. There is enlightenment to be had in changing the way you look at things."
(From "The Little Book Of Calm" by Paul Wilson (1996) )

"If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow."
(Chinese proverb )

Often you just have to rely on your Intuition. Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
(Harvey Mackay) (Bill Gates)

Knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
(Lucille Ball 1911-1989, American Actress, Producer)

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.
(Les Brown)

When ever you are asked if you can do a job,tell'em ,certainly I can-and get busy and find out how to do it.
( Theodor Roosevelt)

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.
(Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832) - Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

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.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson) "Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." (Buddha)