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Motivational Quotes From Dalai Lama

Motivational and inspirational quotes from wise man Dalai Lama, He simply amazes me with his wisdom and his teaching about peace and contentedness. Dalai Lama is one of wisest leader who inspires many of us to live better.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
~ Dalai Lama

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
~ Dalai Lama

We humans have existed in our present form for about a hundred thousand years. I believe that if during this time the human mind had been primarily controlled by anger and hatred, our overall population would have decreased. But today, despite all our wars, we find that the human population is greater than ever. This clearly indicates to me that love and compassion predominate in the world. And this is why unpleasant events are “news”; compassionate activities are so much a part of daily life that they are taken for granted and , therefore, largely ignored. – Dalai Lama

I myself feel, and also tell other Buddhists that the question of Nirvana will come later.
There is not much hurry. -Dalai Lama

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.- Dalai Lama

If in day to day life you lead a good life, honesty, with love, with compassion, with less selfishness, then automatically it will lead to Nirvana. – Dalai Lama

If the love within your mind is lost and you see other beings as enemies, then no matter how much knowledge or education or material comfort you have, only suffering and confusion will ensue. – Dalai Lama

True compassion is not just an emotional response but a firm commitment founded on reason. – Dalai Lama

A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you.~ Dalai Lama

Sleep is the best meditation.
~ Dalai Lama

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. -Dalai Lama

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend – or a meaningful day.
~ Dalai Lama

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.
~ Dalai Lama

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
~ Dalai Lama

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
~ Dalai Lama

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
~ Dalai Lama

True compassion is universal in scope. It is accompanied by a feeling of responsibility. – Dalai Lama

Under the bright sun, many of us are gathered together with different languages, different styles of dress, even different faiths. However, all of us are the same in being humans, and we all uniquely have the thought of “I,” and we´re all the same in wanting happiness and in wanting to avoid suffering. -Dalai Lama

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
~ Dalai Lama

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn’t anyone who doesn’t appreciate kindness and compassion.
~ Dalai Lama

When we are young and again when we are old, we depend heavily on the affection of others. Between these stages we usually feel that we can do everything without help from others and that other people’s affection is simply not important. But at this stage I think it is very important to keep deep human affection.
~ Dalai Lama

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.
~ Dalai Lama

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. ~ Dalai Lama

I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
~ Dalai Lama

Whether someone believes something or not, believer or non-believer, as long as you are a member of the human family, you need warm human feeling, warmhearted feeling. The question of world peace, the question of family peace, the question of peace between wife and husband, or peace between parents and children, everything is dependent on that feeling of love and warmheartedness. -Dalai Lama

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
~ Dalai Lama

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.
~ Dalai Lama

In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.
~ Dalai Lama

Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.
~ Dalai Lama

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
~ Dalai Lama

A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you. -Dalai Lama

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Wisdom Quotes From Mother Teresa

Here are some inspirational and motivational quotes by very inspirational Lady herself, Mother Teresa!

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.
~ Mother Teresa

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?
~ Mother Teresa

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
~ Mother Teresa

It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.
~ Mother Teresa

Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired.
~ Mother Teresa

God doesn’t require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.
~ Mother Teresa

Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do… but how much love we put in that action.
~ Mother Teresa

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
~ Mother Teresa

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
~ Mother Teresa

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.
~ Mother Teresa

Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus.
~ Mother Teresa

Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.
~ Mother Teresa

Good works are links that form a chain of love.
~ Mother Teresa

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
~ Mother Teresa

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
~ Mother Teresa

The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it.
~ Mother Teresa

I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.
~ Mother Teresa

In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.
~ Mother Teresa

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and that’s why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.
~ Mother Teresa

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.
~ Mother Teresa

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
~ Mother Teresa

The success of love is in the loving – it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done.
~ Mother Teresa

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.
~ Mother Teresa

If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
~ Mother Teresa

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.
~ Mother Teresa

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.
~ Mother Teresa
I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.
~ Mother Teresa

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Abraham Lincoln Quotes: Famous Sayings Of Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln is one of wisest man that is admired throughout the world. He was not only one of the best US president but his skill as a leader and his upbringing from hard work till his death is so inspirational and motivational for many. Here are some of wisdom and success quotes from Abraham Lincoln.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
~ Abraham Lincoln

No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
~ Abraham Lincoln

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
~ Abraham Lincoln

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
~ Abraham Lincoln

In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
~ Abraham Lincoln

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves.
~ Abraham Lincoln

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
~ Abraham Lincoln

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
~ Abraham Lincoln

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
~ Abraham Lincoln

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
~ Abraham Lincoln

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
~ Abraham Lincoln

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.
~ Abraham Lincoln

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Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (fiction)

The Life of Abraham Lincoln

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
~ Abraham Lincoln

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
~ Abraham Lincoln

Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
~ Abraham Lincoln

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
~ Abraham Lincoln

Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
~ Abraham Lincoln

Don’t worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition.
~ Abraham Lincoln

I’m a slow walker, but I never walk back.
~ Abraham Lincoln

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
~ Abraham Lincoln

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
~ Abraham Lincoln

Most people are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
~ Abraham Lincoln

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
~ Abraham Lincoln

I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.
~ Abraham Lincoln

Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.
~ Abraham Lincoln

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
~ Abraham Lincoln

Everybody likes a compliment.
~ Abraham Lincoln

A house divided against itself cannot stand.
~ Abraham Lincoln

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
~ Abraham Lincoln

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
~ Abraham Lincoln

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
~ Abraham Lincoln

Quotes By Gandhi: Wisdom Mahama Gandhi Sayings

Mohandas Gandhi was one of the wisest man and man about Peace. Even Martin Luther King was influenced by his philosophy and life when he started his civil freedom for black in USA. Here are some inspirational and motivational quotes by Gandhi that will inspire and uplift your life.

Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.-Mahatma Gandhi
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.Satyagraha Leaflet No. 13

I came to the conclusion long ago … that all religions were true and also that all had some error in them, and whilst I hold by my own, I should hold others as dear as Hinduism. So we can only pray, if we are Hindus, not that a Christian should become a Hindu … But our innermost prayer should be a Hindu should be a better Hindu, a Muslim a better Muslim, a Christian a better Christian. -Young India (19 January 1928)

I’m a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience, which is God.

Young India (21 January 1927)

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

A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.

“Hate the sin and not the sinner” is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.

GandhiJi’s Books:

Non-Violent Resistance (Satyagraha)

Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

Selfishness is blind.

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

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.

Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove a source of infinite mischief.

Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.

Non-cooperation and civil disobedience are different but branches of the same tree call Satyagraha (truth-force).

Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.

If we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with children; and if they will grow up in their natural innocence, we won’t have to struggle, we won’t have to pass fruitless idle resolutions. But we shall go from love to love and peace to peace, until at last all the corners of the world are covered with that peace and love for which, consciously or unconsciously, the whole world is hungering.

True discipline gives enthusiastic obedience to instructions even though they don not satisfy the reason.

One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman.

Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.

Conscience is the ripe fruit of strictest discipline.

Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.

Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove a source of infinite mischief.

Faith gains in strength only when people are willing to lay down their lives for it.

Even as a tree has a single trunk but many branches and leaves, there is one religion -human religion- but any number of faiths.

Fasting is an institution as old as Adam. It has been resorted to for self-purification or for some ends, noble as well as ignoble.

Fear is not a disease of the body, fear kills the soul.

Where there is fear, there is not religion.

Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves.

Freedom received through the efforts of others, however benevolent, cannot be retained when such effort is withdrawn.

Justice does not help those who slumber but helps only those who are vigilant.

Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.

Today machinery merely helps a few to ride on the backs of millions.

To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions.

Truth and nonviolence demand that no human being may debar himself from serving any other human being, no matter how sinful he may be.

Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds.

What I object to is the craze for machinery, not machinery as such.

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

My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all-embracing and I should reject that patriotism which sought to mount the distress or exploitation of other nationalities.

Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms.

It is my firm conviction that if the State supressed capitalism by violence, it will be caught in the coils of violence itself, and will fail to develop non-violence at any time. The State represents violence in a concentrated and organized form. The individual has a soul, but as the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.

Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed.
If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.

It can be easily demonstrated that destruction of the capitalist must mean destruction in the end of the worker and as no human being is so bad as to be beyond redemption, no human being is so perfect as to warrant his destroying him whom he wrongly considers to be wholly evil.

Truth, which is permanent, eludes the historian of events. Truth transcends history.

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Gandhi Books and DVDs

Mood Lifting Quotes: Uplifting Inspirational Quotes To Cheer Up With

We can all use motivational and inspirational uplifting quotes to cheer us up from time to time. Here are some uplifting quotes to cheer up with.

“Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.” -Richard Feynman

“What a doctor or healer tells you is a reflection of the beliefs and expectations you hold. Change your beliefs and you change the prognosis. Who is the doctor? The mind of the patient.” -Alan Cohen

“Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand, and melting like a snowflake.” -Marie Beyon Ray

“Awareness is our true self; it’s what we are. So we don’t have to try to develop awareness; we simply need to notice how we block awareness with our thoughts, our fantasies, our opinions, and our judgments. We’re either in awareness, which is our natural state, or we’re doing something else.” -Joko Beck

“The challenge is to believe your dreams in the center of illusion.” -Emmanuel (Pat Rodegast)

“I wanted a perfect ending.. Now, I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity.” -Gilda Radner

“The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.” -Samuel Johnson

“And, when he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of Heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.” {Romeo and Juliet} – -William Shakespeare

“True love is the most enduring of all of life’s worldly possessions, never tarnishing over time but ever to remain bright and brilliant in the light of love.” -Joseph P. Martino

“True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.” -Jeremy Collier

“Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.” -Dale Turner

“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.” -Isaac Newton

“Every now and again take a good look at something not made with hands – a mountain, a star, the turn of a stream. There will come to you wisdom and patience and solace and, above all, the assurance that you are not alone in the world.” -Sidney Lovett

“To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the enlightened mind the whole world sparkles and burns.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our own ignorance about ourselves.” -Carl Sagan

“Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.” -Dinah Craik

“All day I have been tossed and whirled in a preposterous happiness; was it an elf in the blood? Or a bird in the brain? Or even part of the cloudily crested, fifty-league-long, loud, uplifted wave of a journeying angels transit over and through my heart?” -C.S. Lewis

“There is a form of laughter that springs from the heart, heard every day in the merry voice of childhood, the expression of a laughter — loving spirit that defies analysis by the philosopher, which has nothing rigid or mechanical in it, and totally without social significance. Bubbling spontaneously from the heart of child or man. Without egotism and full of feeling, laughter is the music of life.” -Sir William Osler

“To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.” -Henry David Thoreau

“Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; not a mean and groveling thing that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny.”- William E. Gladstone

“A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.” -Edwin H. Chapin

Success Quotes: Lifting Up Quotes For Finding Success

Here are some quotes by famous and wise folks of our life about finding success. Inspirational and motivational quotes to lift up your spirit and make you steps closer to achieve success in your life.

“Hitch your wagon to a star”
— RALPH WALDO EMERSON

” Be the change that you want to see in the world.”
~ MAHATMA GANDHI

“The world will not change until we do”
~ JIM WALLIS

“The time is always right to do what is right.”
– MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

“The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard.. But must be felt with the heart.”

“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.” Louis L’Amour

“Follow your bliss”
— JOSEPH CAMPBELL

“Life is not always what one wants it to be, but to make the best of it as it is,
is the only way of being happy.”
– JENNIE JEROME CHURCHILL

“The only reward of virtue is virtue.”
— RALPH WALDO EMERSON

“Whoever is happy will make others happy too”
— ANNE FRANK

“A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before”
— RALPH WALDO EMERSON

“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.”
— MARK TWAIN

“Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection”
— LAWRENCE DURRELL

“A good travel agent is worth more than a good lawyer . . . .”

“Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion”
— LEO BUSCAGLIA

“Abundance is about being rich, with or without money.”
— SUZE ORMAN

“Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful”
— ANNETTE FUNICELLO

“Love the moment, and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.”
— CORITA KENT

” Every day, in every way, I’m getting better and better”
— EMILE COUÉ

“If we are ever to enjoy life, now is the time, not tomorrow or next year . . .
Today should always be our most wonderful day.”
— THOMAS DREIER

“Life is a great and wondrous mystery, and the only thing we know that we have for sure
is what is right here and right now. Don’t miss it.”
— LEO BUSCAGLIA

“When we are no longer able to change a situation… We are challenged to change ourselves”
~ VIKTOR FRANKL

“Be here now!”
— RAM DAS

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives”
— ANNIE DILLARD

“This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.”
— RALPH WALDO EMERSON

“Today is the first day of the rest of your life”
— CHARLES DEDERICH

“Don’t put off until tomorrow what you can do today, because if you enjoy it today you can do it again tomorrow.!”
— JAMES A .MICHENER

“Write in your heart that every day is the best day of the year”
— RALPH WALDO EMERSON

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
— GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

“Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
— RALPH WALDO EMERSON

” Giving opens the way to receiving”
— FLORENCE SCOVEL SHINN

” Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons”
— RUTH ANN SCHABACKER

“A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.”
— GENERAL GEORGE S. PATTON

“Let a series of happy thoughts run through your mind. They will show on your face.”
— UNKNOWN

“Your love is better than ice cream”
— SARAH MCLACHLAN

“Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.”
— CARL SAGAN

“If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it.”
— MARY ENGELBREIT

“You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.”
– CHARLES F. KETTERING

“We are often so caught up in our destination That we forget to appreciate the journey, Especially the goodness of the people we meet along the way. Appreciation is a wonderful feeling, don’t overlook it.”
– AUTHOR UNKNOWN

“There is pleasure in the pathless woods
There is a rapture on the lonely shore
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar
I love not man the less, but nature more”
— LORD BYRON

“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.”
— GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

“The best way to predict the future is to create it!”
— JASON KAUFMANN

“Begin doing what you want to do now. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand — and melting like a snowflake.”
— MARIE BEYON RAY

“I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God’s business.”
– MICHAEL J. FOX

“This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.”
– RALPH WALDO EMERSON

“Over All the Sky – The Sky! Far, Far out of Reach. Studded with the Eternal Stars.”
– WALT WHITMAN

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.”
– RALPH WALDO EMERSON

“Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind.
The third is to be kind.”
– HENRY JAMES

“If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there.
Then never, never, never give up.”
– NORMAN VINCENT PEALE

What’s the best thing that happened to you today?”
– AMANDA GORE

“You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.”
– CHARLES F. KETTERING

“Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and follow where they lead.”
— LOUISA MAY ALCOTT

“Our lives are not determined by what happens to us, but how we react to what happens; not by what life brings us, but by the attitude we bring to life. A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events and outcomes. It is a catalyst a spark that creates extraordinary results.”
— UNKNOWN

“The first love, the first sunrise, the first South Sea island, are memories apart”
– ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”
– HENRY MILLER

“Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.”
– BENJAMIN DISRAELI

“Life is what we make it. Always has been, always will be.”
— GRANDMA MOSES

“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake.
The great affair is to move.”
– ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

“Life is too short to fly coach!”
– DALE IRVIN

“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else.”
— RALPH WALDO EMERSON

“Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.”
— ANONYMOUS

“Not all those who wander are lost”
— J.R.R. Tolkein

Uplifting Quotes: Mood Lifting Quotes When Feeling Blue

Often times, even most optimistic person can blue and feel depressed in his or her life. For those times, we can all use some help from inspiring lifting up person or lifting up quotes to lift up mood and find cheerful attitude to keep us going. Here are some of the mood lifting quotes to lift up your mood. Enjoy the motivational and inspirational mood lifting quotes.

“As you recognize that you already own the wholeness you seek, and no one outside you can give you more than you already are, dysfunctional situations will evaporate like bad dreams exposed to the morning sun.” – Alan Cohen

“Life is not measured by the Numbers of breathes we take, but by the moments that take our breath away..” -Unknown

“How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself. So always think positively.”

“We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.” – Martin Luther King

“The Important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are;For what we could become”. -CHARLES DUBOIS

“To be good is noble, but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.” – Mark Twain

“You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge.” Eckhart Tolle

“Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.” -Elie Weisel

“Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else”. -J.M. BARRIE, Novelist

“Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.” -Robert Schuller

“See the world as if for the first time; see it through the eyes of a child, and you will suddenly find that you are free.”- Deepak Chopra

“Prosperity is not without many fears and disasters; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.” -Francis Bacon

“Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.” -Unknown

“Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.”- Edward A. Navajo

“All that is gold does not glitter,
not all those who wander are lost.
The old that is strong does not wither,
deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
a light from the shadows shall spring.
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
the crownless again shall be king.” -J.R.R. Tolkien

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” -Japanese proverb

“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all of your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fear” – Cesare Pavese

“The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.” -Anthony J. D’ Angelo

“The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going. ” -Unknown

“The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.” -Epictetus

“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.” -Henry David Thoreau

“In any conflict, we can defend ourselves or we can learn. Defense has made the world unlivable. What would happen if we chose to learn instead? Instead of saying, ‘You frighten me’, what if we said, ‘You interest me’?” -Leslie Back, One

“Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.” -Jim Rohn

Teacher Quotes: Motivational Quotes about Educators

Teaching is one of noblest profession and once upon a time, teacher were looked upon as a second to god for some students. While our generation have changed that outlook but there are great teachers who still can make a huge difference in a child’s life.

Treat the students the way you would want to be treated.

A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove . . . . but the world maybe different because I was important in the life of a child. – Kathy Davis –

No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness, and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure- Emma Golmam

Don’t set your wit against a child- Johnathan Swift

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand- Author unknown

A A gifted teacher is as rare as a gifted doctor, and makes far less money. – Author unknown

A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary. – Thomas Carruthers

A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron. – Horace Mann

Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others. – Confucius

Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson. – Vernon Law

He who dares to teach must never cease to learn. – Anonymous

I believe that every human soul is teaching something to someone nearly every minute here in mortality. – M. Russell Ballard

I believe that the testing of the student’s achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning. – Carl Rogers

All learning begins with the simple phrase, “I don’t know”. -Unknown

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. John Ruskin

They may forget what you said, But they will never forget how you made them feel. – Unknow

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are endless. ~ Mother Teresa

The work can wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow won’t wait while you do the work.- -Patricia Clafford

Never have ideas about children, and never have ideas for them. — George Orwell

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.–Alvin Toffler

It must be remembered that the purpose of education is not to fill the minds of students with facts… it is to teach them to think, if that is possible, and always to think for themselves.’ — Robert Hutchins

It is not so much what is poured into the student, but what is planted that really counts. – Unknown

The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this afternoon.
– Anonymous

One father is worth 100 schoolmasters. – George Herbert

By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn.- Latin Proverb

If the student fails to learn, the teacher fails to teach. -Unknown

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. -Unknown

To teach is to learn twice.- Joseph Joubert

If a doctor, lawyer, or dentist had 40 people in his office at one time, all of whom had different needs, and some of whom didn’t want to be there and were causing trouble, and the doctor, lawyer, or dentist, without assistance, had to treat them all with professional excellence for nine months, then he might have some conception of the classroom teacher’s job. ~Donald D. Quinn

Modern cynics and skeptics… see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing. ~John F. Kennedy

Challenge of the day : Find something good in everyone. – Unknown

Whether you think you can or think you can’t – you are right. – Henry Ford

Teach a child how to think, not what to think.- Sidney Sugarman

When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble – Mark Twain

Teaching is the profession that teaches all the other professions. ~Author Unknown

Teacher : The child’s third parent. – Hyman Berston

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. – William Ward

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called “truth.” ~Dan Rather

I touch the future. I teach. – Christa McAuliffe.

To teach is to touch lives forever. – Anonymous

Good teacher is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. – Gail Godwin

Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best. – Bob Talbert

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Knowledge Quotes: Wisdom Quotes About Knowledge

Without knowledge we can achieve anything, everything can be lost such as money, career, house but what you have learned in your mind, always stays with you! Knowledge is power.

Lack of knowledge… that is the problem. –W. Edwards Deming

Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge. -David Hume

You should not ask questions without knowledge. –W. Edwards Deming

If in preaching the gospel you substitute your knowledge of the way of salvation for confidence in the power of the gospel, you hinder people from getting to reality. -Oswald Chambers

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgment. -Ludwig Wittgenstein

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
-Samuel Johnson

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
–Samuel Johnson

Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise. -Samuel Johnson

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. -Samuel Johnson

Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most of her daughters have been afraid of it since. -Abigail Adams

It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance. -Thomas Sowell

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn. -Bertolt Brecht

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.
-Hippocrates

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.-Jean Jacques Rousseau

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill. –Wilbur Wright;

We must develop knowledge optimization initiatives to leverage our key learning. –Scott Adams

Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.-Jean Jacques Rousseau

Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family.-Kofi Annan

If information and knowledge are central to democracy, they are the conditions for development.-Kofi Annan

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it. –Zhuangzi

Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse. -Zhuangzi

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man. –William Penn

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.-William Penn

I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community. I’m looking to elevate through my music, and through my music I educate. -Talib Kweli

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.Arthur Conan Doyle

When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge.
-Arthur Conan Doyle

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.-Plutarch

If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys. -Herschel Walker

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one’s being. –Orison Swett Marden

The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability. -Chanakya

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.-James A. Baldwin

Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty. -Hubert H. Humphrey

True, some land was bought by a few Cabinet Ministers. They bought the land. No minister, to my knowledge acquired land which was meant for resettlement. -Robert Mugabe

I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions.-Plutarch

The truth is often terrifying, which I think is one of the motifs of Larry and Andrew’s cinema. The cost of knowledge is an important theme. In the second and third films, they explore the consequences of Neo’s choice to know the truth. It’s a beautiful, beautiful story. -Keanu Reeves

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves. -Josh Billings

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How to Be a Leader: Motivational Leadership Quotes

Leadership quotes can be powerful and encouraging in personal or business life. Here are some that you may like;

And when we think we lead, we are most led. -Lord Byron

In matters of style, swim with the current;
In matters of principle, stand like a rock. – Thomas Jefferson

Leadership should be born out of the understanding of the needs of those who would be affected by it.
-Marian Anderson

Leadership is understanding people and involving them to help you do a job. That takes all of the good characteristics, like integrity, dedication of purpose, selflessness, knowledge, skill, implacability, as well as determination not to accept failure. -Admiral Arleigh A. Burke

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
-Sandra Carey

Good plans shape good decisions. That’s why good planning helps to make elusive dreams come true.
–Lester R. Bittel

I used to think that running an organization was equivalent to conducting a symphony orchestra. But I don’t think that’s quite it; it’s more like jazz. There is more improvisation. – Warren Bennis

A leader’s role is to raise people’s aspirations for what they can become and to release their energies so they will try to get there. -David R. Gergen

Leadership is action, not position. -Donald H. McGannon

The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader. -Albert Einstein

Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions. -Harold S. Geneen

He that cannot obey cannot command. -Benjamin Franklin

Leadership resources:

The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You

Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting out of the Box

Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. -John Fitzgerald Kennedy

A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless … someone’s got to make a wake up call. –Warren Bennis

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.
-Abraham Lincoln

Lead and inspire people. Don’t try to manage and manipulate people. Inventories can be managed but people must be lead. -Ross Perot

Leadership should be more participative than directive, more enabling than performing. –Mary D. Poole

The quality of a leader is reflected in the standards they set for themselves. – Ray Kroc

To be able to lead others, a man must be willing to go forward alone. -Harry Truman

Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. -Harold R. McAlindon

The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men, the conviction and the will to carry on.-Walter Lippman

The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why. –Warren Bennis

The very essence of leadership is that you have to have a vision. –Theodore Hesburgh

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be. -Rosalynn Carter

Humans are ambitious and rational and proud. And we don’t fall in line with people who don’t respect us and who we don’t believe have our best interests at heart. We are willing to follow leaders, but only to the extent that we believe they call on our best, not our worst. -Rachel Maddow

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority. -Kenneth Blanchard

Most important, leaders can conceive and articulate goals that lift people out of their petty preoccupations and unite them in pursuit of objectives worthy of their best efforts. -John Gardner

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it. -Theodore Roosevelt

A leader is a dealer in hope. -Napoleon Bonaparte

Leadership can be thought of as a capacity to define oneself to others in a way that clarifies and expands a vision of the future. –Edwin H. Friedman

I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
-Mohandas K. Gandhi

Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.
-Rosabeth Moss Kantor

Good leaders must first become good servants. –Robert Greenleaf