Motivational Quotes - Page 236

For individuals, character is destiny. For organizations, culture is destiny.

What's important is not the accolades and memories of success but the way you respond when opportunities are denied.

For small business men and women, less paperwork means higher profits, boosted sales and more time with the family.

Those not chasing their dreams should stay out of the way of those who are.

You can always become better.

Exercise and application produce order in our affairs, health of body, cheerfulness of mind, and these make us precious to our friends

Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.

I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. . . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.

Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.

In judging others a man laboreth in vain; he often erreth, and easily falleth into sin; but in judging and examining himself he always laboreth to good purpose.

Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.

Lend your friend $20. If he doesn't pay you back then he's not your friend. Money well spent.

In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path

Stand up, be bold, and take the blame on your own shoulders. Do not go about throwing mud at others; for all the faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause.

Each one of you has a glorious future if you dare believe me. Have a tremendous faith in yourselves, like the faith I had when I was I was young... Have that faith, each one of you, in yourself - that eternal power is lodged in every soul - and you will revive the whole of India.

I am one of the proudest men ever born, but let me tell you frankly, it is not for myself, but on account of my ancestry. The more I have studied the past, the more I have looked back, more and more has this pride come to me, and it has given me the strength and courage of conviction, raised me up from the dust of the earth, and set me working out that great plan laid out by those great ancestors of ours.

Why talk of the team when our Cricket Board is like an exclusive club with members being there for years on end? If they can stay on without performing, the players too feel they can stay in the team without too big a performance.

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

We may be very busy, we may be very 'efficient', but we will also be truly 'effective' only when we begin with the end in mind.

People behave more on the basis of how they feel than how they think; unless there are good feelings between people, it is almost impossible to reason intelligently.

We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations

My behavior is a product of my own conscious choices based on principles, rather than a product of my conditions, based on feelings.

To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self.