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Motivational Quotes

Success doesn't mean the absense of failures; it means the attainment of ultimate objectives. it means winning the war, not every battle. ~ Edwin C. Bliss

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude.
towards it, for that determines our success or failure.
~ Norman Vincent Peale

He slept beneath the moon
He basked beneath the sun
He lived a life of going to do
and died with nothing done.
~ James Albery

Never leave till tomorrow, which you can do today.
~ Benjamin Franklin

Universities are turning out highly skilled barbarians because we don't provide a framework of values to young people, who More and more are searching for it. ~ steven Muller

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.~ Derek Bok

The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, or technicalities.~ Winston Churchill

You may be disappointed,if you fail, but you will be doomed if you don't try.~ Beverley Sills

Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn to do things the right way.~ Benjamin Franklin

One reason that i don't drink is that i want to know when i am having a good time.~ Lady Astor

Super achievers don't waste time in unproductive thoughts, esoteric thoughts, or catasrophic thoughts. They think constructively and they know that their level of thlinking determines their success. ~Dr. Seymour Epstein

If you really want to succeed, form the habit of doing things that failures don't like to do.

I don't know the key of success , but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. ~ Bill Cosby

Success and happiness go hand in hand. success is getting what you want and happiness is wanting what you get.

Existence alone is not success!it is a lot more !
Do more than exist --Live
Do more than touch -- Feel
Do more than look -- Observe
Do more than read -- Absorb
Do more than hear -- Listen
Do more than listen -- Understand.
~ John H.Rhoades

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heart-breaking obstacles before they triumphed . They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats. ~B.C.Forbes

Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success. They quit on the one-yard line. They give up at the last minute of the game, one foot form a winning touchdown.~ H.Ross Perot

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. ~William Jenning Bryan

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.

Health , happiness, and success depend upon the gighting spirit of each person. the big thing is not what happens to us in life-- but what we do about happens to us. ~ George Allen

Try not to become a sucess, but rather try to become a man of value. ~ Albert Einstein.

When I'd get tired and want to stop, I'd wonder what my next opponent was doing. when i could see him still working, i'd start pushing myself. When i could see him in the shower, i'd push myself. When i could see him in the shower, I'd push myself harder.~ Dan Gable

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to thier commitment to excellence , regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. ~Vince Lombardi

A duty which becomes a desire will ultimately become a delight.~ Gerorge Gritter

Luck ? i don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I,m afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else; hard work -- and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't. ~Lucille Ball

I like to work half a day. I don't care if it the first 12 hours or the second 12 hours. ~ Kammons Wilson

if people knew how hard i had to work to gain my mastery it woruldn't seem wonderful at all.
~Michaelangelo

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability int his work. The world off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between sould who bevote 100%. ~Andrew Carnegie

Far and anyway the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at something worth doing.
~Theodore Roosevelt

The critic is one who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. ~Oscar Wilde

Something in human nature causes us to start slacking off at our moment of greatest accomplishment. As you become successful, you will need a great deal of self-discipline not to lose your sense of balance , humility and commitment. ~H. Ross Perot

If you work for a man, for heaven's sake work for him.~ Kim Hubbarrd

life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use. ~Charles Schultz

A man is a hero not because he is barver than anyone else, but because he is brave for ten minutes longer. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone has a will to win but very few have the will to prepare to win. ~Vince Lombardi

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. ~Henry C. Link

You have a choice in life: You can either pay the price of discipline or regret. ~Tim connor

Sixty years ago i knew everything; now i know nothing; education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. ~Will Durant

Grant Minds have purposes, others have wishes. ~Washington Irving

Good things come to those who wait, only those things left by those who hustle. ~Abraham Lincoln

What a man thinks of himself; that is what determines, or rather indicates, his fate. ~Henry David THoreau

"Fellow citizens, why do you trun and scrape every stone to gather wealth and take so little care of your children to whom one day, you must relinquish it all? ~ Socrates

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired but controlling the desire. ~Epictetus

I'm looking for a lot of men with an infinite capacity for not knowing what cannot be done.
~ Henry Ford

Associate yourself with people of good quality if you esteem your reputation, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company. ~Geroge Washington

Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually, leads to success. ~Brain Adams

A good beginning makes a good ending. ~English Porverb

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Jealousy is ... a tiger that tears not only its prey but also its own raging heart. ~Michael Beer

He know would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run... ~Friederich Nietzsche

Responsibilites gravitate to the person who can shoulder them. ~Elbert Hubbard

The price of greatness is responsibility. ~Winston Chuchill

For evil to flourish , good people have to do nothing and evil shall flourish. ~Edmund Burke

Nothing great is ever achieved without enthusiasm. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis but rather feeling of being of unwanted.
~ Mother Teresa

The learned a long time ago never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty and besides ,the pig likes it.
~Cyrus Ching

Make yourself an honest man and then you may be sure there is one rascal less in the world.
~ Thomas carlyle

Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. ~Eric Hoffer

we are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit. ~ Aristotle

On the journey to life's highway, keep your eyes upen the goal. Focus on the dnut, not upon the hole.

The man who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed. ~Lloyd Jones

Life is hard by the yard, but by the inch, it's a cinch. ~Gean Gordon

Make no little plans, they have no magic to stir men's blood..
Make a big plans, aim high and hope and work. ~Deniel H. Burnham

Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress. ~Alfred A. Montapert

Our task now it not to fix the blame for the past , but fix the course for the future. ~John F. Kennedy

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
~Calvin Coolidge

There's harmony and inner peace to be found in following a moral compass that points in the same direction , regardless of fashion or trend. ~Ted Koppel

Study as if you were to live forever.
Live as if were to die tomorrow.
~Mahatama Gandhi

I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that would ultimately fail. ~Woodrow Wilson

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. ~Michel de Montaigne

Mahatama Gandhi Quotes

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Where there is love there is life.

Where love is, there God is also.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

What is true of the individual will be to-morrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible.

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

We must become the change we want to see in the world.

We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

Those who know how to think need no teachers.

There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart.

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

Manliness consists in making circumstances subserve to ourselves.

Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment.

Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it.

Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

My life is my message.

My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted.

The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.

The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.

The law an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

The good man is the friend of all living things.

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

Action expresses priorities.

An eye for an eye makes us all blind.

Be the change that you want to see in the world.

Each one prays to God according to his own light.

Evil is, good or truth misplaced.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.

.I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.

If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

Imitation is the sincerest flattery.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another

Non-violence is the article of faith

Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

Self-respect knows no considerations.

Human society is a ceaseless growth, an unfoldment in terms of spirituality.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

Evil is, good or truth misplaced.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

Jawaharlal Nehru Quotes

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds. "

A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.

Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

Every little thing counts in a crisis.

Great causes and little men go ill together.

I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.

Ignorance is always afraid of change.

It is only too easy to make suggestions and later try to escape the consequences of what we say.

It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilise existing material to the best advantage.

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul.

Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds.

The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.

The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.

Swami Vivekananda Quotes

You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself. "

All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.

By the study of different RELIGIONS we find that in essence they are one.

GOD is the ever-active providence, by whose power systems after systems are being evolved out of chaos, made to run for a time and again destroyed.

GOD is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.

If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on 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.

That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material.

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves!

The moment 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 Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.

The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary.

Thoughts live; they travel far.

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.

Rabindranath Tagore Quotes

We live in the world when we love it.

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man.

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

Isaac Newton Quotes

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.

This most beautiful system [The Universe] could only proceed from the dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.

I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise Physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires. Let us trust his skill and thank him for his prescription.

The seed of a tree has the nature of a branch or twig or bud. It is a part of the tree, but if separated and set in the earth to be better nourished, the embryo or young tree contained in it takes root and grows into a new tree.

About the Time of the End, a body of men will be raised up who will turn their attention to the Prophecies, and insist upon their literal interpretation, in the midst of much clamor and opposition.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

Oh Diamond! Diamond! Thou little knowest the mischief done! (Said to a pet dog who knocked over a candle and set fire to his papers.

To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.

Yet one thing secures us what ever betide,/ The scriptures assures us the Lord will provide.

I'm kind of obsessed with that song, I've used it in almost every project I've done, ... I can't get over it. I own 30 versions of it.

What I'm trying to do with most of my work is establish this new modernism, ... If people don't walk out of theatres saying, 'Yes, something is possible,' then you've failed.

If I saw further than other men, it was because I stood on the shoulders of giants.

I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these computations, having no other business at the time.

The system of revealed truth which this Book contains is like that of the universe, concealed from common observation yet...the centuries have established its Divine origin.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

Guru Nanak Dev Ji Quotes

God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human form.

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.

Far from wife and son am 1, far from land and wealth and other notions of that kind. I am the Witness, the Eternal, the Inner Self.

From its brilliancy everything is illuminated.

God is one, but he has innumerable forms. He is the creator of all and He himself takes the human form.

I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.

I am neither male nor female, nor am I sexless. I am the Peaceful One, whose form is self-effulgent, powerful radiance.

I am not the born; how can there be either birth or death for me?

Let no man in the world live in delusion. Without a Guru none can cross over to the other shore.

O God, my mind is fascinated with Thy lotus feet as the bumble-bee with the flower; night and day I thirst for them.

One cannot comprehend Him through reason, even if one reasoned for ages.

Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.

Thou has a thousand eyes and yet not one eye; Thou host a thousand forms and yet not one form.

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FunStar#1

Great Inspirational Quotes.THANKS!

Private Ryan

Gr8 quotes...btw, i dont read much of 'em at a time..they make me feel uneasy..lol..

The only quote i like the most is....'I AM WHAT I AM...'.....lol..

On serious thoughts, this quote caught my attention recently.. " An Eye For An Eye..Makes The Whole World Blind.."

Sandeep

NIce collection bro......

Bluffmaster

"I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman."

Sandeep

Tough times dont last, but tough men do....