Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

-Albert Einstein
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil,but because of those who look on and do nothing.

-Albert Einstein
"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."

-Thomas Jefferson

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done
.

-Dwight D. Eisenhower

"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."

-Douglas Everett


One man with courage makes a majority.

-Andrew Jackson
Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

-Martin Luther King, Jr.


Dont Quit

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
when the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
when the funds are low and the debts are high,
and you want to smile but you have to sigh,
when care is pressing you down a bit -
rest if you must, but don't you quit.

Life is queer with its twists and turns.
As everyone of us sometimes learns.
And many a fellow turns about
when he might have won had he stuck it out.
Don't give up though the pace seems slow -
you may succeed with another blow.

Often the goal is nearer than
it seems to a faint and faltering man;
often the struggler has given up
when he might have captured the victor's cup;
and he learned too late when the night came down,
how close he was to the golden crown.

Success is failure turned inside out -
the silver tint of the clouds of doubt,
and when you never can tell how close you are,
it may be near when it seems afar;
so stick to the fight when you're hardest hit -
it's when things seem worst, you must not quit.


To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

-William M. Thackeray
Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

-Joshua J. Marine


Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

-Thornton Wilder

I Think I can


If you think you are beaten, you are;
If you think you dare not, you won't
If you like to win, but don't think you can,
It's almost a cinch you won't.

If you think you'll lose, your lost;
For out in the world you'll find
Success begins with a fellow's will;
It's all in a state of mind.

For many a game is lost
Before even a play is run,
And many a coward fails
Before even his work has begun.

Think big and your deeds will grow,
Think small and you'll fall behind,
Think that you can and you will;
It's all in a state of mind.

If you think you are outclassed, you are;
You've got to think high to rise;
You've got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever take home the prize.

Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger or faster man,
More often than not, the man who wins
Is the Man who thinks he can.


-Author Unknown

My Wage

I bargained with Life for a penny,
And Life would pay no more,
However I begged at evening
When I counted my scanty store;

For Life is a just employer,
He gives you what you ask,
But once you have set the wages,
Why, you must bear the task.

I worked for a menial’s hire,
Only to learn, dismayed,
That any wage I had asked of Life,
Life would have paid.

-Jessie Belle Rittenhouse
Only by going too far can one possibly find out how far one can go.

-Jon dyer

Agneepath - The path of fire

Again a beautiful poem by Harivansh Rai Bachchan


Agneepath Agneepath Agneepath,
Vriksh ho bhale ghane, ho ghane ho bade,
Ek pat chhav ki mang mat, mang mat,
Agneepath Agneepath Agneepath.

Tu na thakega kabhi, tu na thamega kabhi, tu na mudega kabhi,
Kar shapath, kar shapath, kar shapath,
Agneepath, Agneepath, Agneepath.

Ye mahaan drishya hai, chal raha manushya hai,
Ashru swed raqt se lathpath, lathpath, lathpath,
Agneepath, Agneepath, Agneepath.


-Harivansh Rai Bachhan

Koshish karne walon ki kabhi haar nahi hoti

A beautiful hindi poem by Harivansh Rai Bachchan


Lahron se darkar nauka kabhi paar nahi hoti
koshish karne walon ki kabhi haar nahi hoti

nanhi chinti jab dana lekar chalti hai,
chadhti deewaron par sau baar fisalti hai,
manka vishwas ragon me sahas bharta hai,
chadhkar girna, girkar chadhna na akharta hai,
mehnat uski bekar har baar nahi hoti,
mehnat karne walo ki kabhi haar nahi hoti,

dubkiyan sindhu me gotakhor lagata hai,
ja ja kar khali haath laut kar ata hai,
mile na sehaj moti gehare pani me,
badhta duuna vishwas is hairani me,
muthi uski khaali har baar nahi hoti,
koshish karne walon ki kabhi haar nahi hoti,

asaflta ek chunauti hai, sweekar karo,
kya kami reh gayi, dekho aur sudhar karo,
jab tak safal na ho chain ki neend ko tyago tum,
sangharsh ka maidan mat chod kar bhago tum,
kuch kiye bina jai jai kaar nahi hoti,
koshish karne walon ki kabhi haar nahi hoti.


-Harivansh Rai Bachchan

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.

-
Mahatma Gandhi


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

-
Mahatma Gandhi


A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

-
Mahatma Gandhi


It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved at all.

-unknown



In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.

-Arnay, Janos

"Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure. You are thinking of failure as the enemy of success. But it isn't as all. You can be discouraged by failure - or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because, remember that's where you will find success."

-- Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately triumph than to triumph in a cause that will ultimately fail.

-
Wilson, Woodrow




Whenever I hear, "It can't be done," I know I'm close to success.

-Michael Flatley




Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then go do it.


-Lazarus Long



You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

-Booker T. Washington



"Wealth is the product of man's ability to think."

-Ayn Rand

"A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want."

- Madonna


"A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."

- Walter Bagehot



There are no gains without pains.

-
Benjamin Franklin




Believe that you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact.

-
Norman Vincent Peale


Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.

-Sir Winston Churchill


Madness

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.


-Friedrich Nietzsche



The worst way to miss someone is to be sitting right beside them knowing you can't have them.

- Unknown


It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone, and a day to love someone -- but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.

- Unknown

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.


-Mary Pickford

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

-Walter Winchell



Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.


-Elbert Hubbard

Love is temporary insanity curable by marriage.

-Ambrose Bierce




The heart has reasons which reason knows nothing of.

-Blaise Pascal


Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.



- Sun-tzu (~400 BC), The Art of War.

Success is Counted Sweetest


Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne'er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.

Not one of all the purple Host
Who took the Flag today
Can tell the definition
So clear of Victory

As he defeated - dying -
On whose forbidden ear
The distant strains of triumph
Burst agonized and clear!


-Emily Dickinson

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that, the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

-Robert Frost




A Psalm Of Life

(Thanks to Divya for sending this)

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Tell me not in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.

Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou are, to dust thou returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each tomorrow
Find us farther than today.

Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.

In the world's broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of Life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle!
Be a hero in the strife!

Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act, - act in the living Present!
Heart within, and God o'erhead!

Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sand of time;

Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o'er life's solenm main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.

Let us then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses.

-Unknown



Always ask God to give you what you deserve, not what you desire. It’s because your desires may be few but you deserve a lot!

-Unknown

Don't Quit


When things go wrong as they sometimes will;
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill;
When the funds are low, and the debts are high
And you want to smile, but have to sigh;
When care is pressing you down a bit-
Rest if you must, but do not quit.

Success is failure turned inside out;
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt;
And you can never tell how close you are
It may be near when it seems so far;
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit-
It's when things go wrong that you must not quit.




-Unknown



If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut
.

-Albert Einstein


If we did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves.

-Thomas Edison




All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them.

-Walt Disney




Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.


-Albert Einstein



Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

-Albert Einstein



An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.

-Victor Hugo



Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

-Victor Hugo




“The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
and miles to go before I sleep.”


-Robert Frost

“I guess it comes down to a simple choice, really.
Get busy living, or get busy dying.”



—The Shawshank Redemption (Tim Robbins)





"To live is the rarest
thing in the world.
Most people exist,
that is all."


-Oscar Wilde


I can resist everything except temptation

Oscar Wilde

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.



-Seneca, roman philospher



For all your days prepare, And meet them ever alike.
When you are anvil, bear - when you are the hammer, strike.


-
Edwin Markham


Take care to get what you like, or you will be forced to like what you get.


-George Bernard Shaw






Great minds discuss ideas.
Average minds discuss events.
Small minds discuss people.

-Eleanor Roosevelt
Truth is whatever lie you choose to believe.

-Anonymous
Some people follow their heart, others follow their mind.
I follow my mind, and my mind says to follow the heart.



-Sumeet (me)

Disclaimer: This is not an inspirational quote but since it was the first one I wrote in my life I included it here..;-)


The secret of success is consistency of purpose

Benjamin Disraeli




Life is a journey, and love is what makes that journey worthwhile.

Unknown





Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.


Thomas Edison




Go on your own


Do not follow where the path leads,
Rather go where there is no path, and leave a trail.


David Perkins


Attitude matters...

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes of mind

William James


Fear None


Do the thing you are afraid to do and the death of fear is certain.


Emerson, Ralph Waldo


Mistakes in Life



A life making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing at all.

George Bernard Shaw


Power of Dreams.

Some men see things as they are and ask why.
Others dream things that never were and ask why not
.


George Bernard Shaw

Irish Playwright and Critic

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.

Woodrow Wilson
28th US President

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Mark Twain
American Author, Humorist


Listening to critics

I like this one....

Pay no attention to what the critics say;
no statue has ever been erected to a critic
.


Jean Sibelius
Finnish Composer

A quote by Mark Twain

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain
American Author