Inspirational Text Messages(Quotes)

These are some of the inpirational text messages I've received on my cellphone which I saved in My Folder.

1. Be strong. Never tell yourself, I AM TIRED, I AM OLD. The more you accept that thought, the more exhausted you'll become. But if you tell yourself, I CAN DO EVEN MORE, you'll find that there are no limits to what you can accomplish and what life still has to offer.

2. Smooth roads never make good drivers. Smooth seas never make good sailors. Clear skies never make good pilots. A problem - free life never makes a strong and good person. Be strong enough to accept challenges of life. Don't ask LIFE "Why me?"instead "Try me!

3. You can't discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. Because only those who risk can tell how far they can go. Enjoy sailing life. Don't give up!

4. It's better to enjoy life committing MISTAKES and LEARN rather than playing safe in your entire life, and learned NOTHING at all.

5. If God answers your prayer, He's increasing your faith. If He delays, He's increasing your patience and if he doesn't answer, He knows you can handle.

6. God never leaves you empty. He always replaces everything you lost. If He asks you to put something down, it's because He wants you to pick up something GREAT.

7. Don't pray to be sheltered from problems, but pray to be fearless in facing them. Don't be afraid of pain but ask for a heart that conquers it.

8. The way you deal with your struggles depends on how you view them. Always remember: "There are no hopeless situations; only people who thinks hopelessly."

9. When the crosses of life seem so heavy to bear, don't ask God to lighten your cross but ask Him to strengthen your back for you to carry the load.

10. Sometimes we must be hurt in order to grow; we must fail in order to know; we must lose in order to gain; because some lessons are best learned through pains.

11. Life is pretty simple. When you are asking for apples and life hands you lemons, make lemonade. If you are on your way out and it starts to rain, at least you don't have to water the plants anymore. It's a matter of seeing things in perspective. The benefits may not be immediate or obvious, but you have to know this for sure: There will be problems; there will be struggles; have faith, enjoy life and take it easy. If today you are picking up the grapes, tomorrow you'll be drinking the wine.

12. Don't give up when you have something to give. Nothing is really over unless you stop trying. Don't be afraid to encounter risks, it's by taking chances that we learn how to be brave.

13. Let not other people become the source of your frustration. As a famous talk show host said "You don't have to prove anything to anyone. It's not your problem when they reject you, it's theirs. Only stuck up idiots would require you to please them." Remember, you can't please everybody. Stay happy!

13. Never be afraid to try something new, because life gets boring when you stay within the limits of what you already knew. Life is too short to have no fun and yet too precious to waste.

14. Keep you optimism. After all, no one has ever damaged his eyesight by looking at the BRIGHTER side of life.

15. If people are trying to pull you down, be proud of it. It only means one thing: "You are above them." And one sure reason why they would hate you: because they wanted to become just like you.

16. There's an old saying: Erasers are for people who make errors. A better expression is : Erasers are for people who are willing to correct their mistakes!

17. Always remember two things in life:

"Don't make any decisions when you are angry"and "Don't make any promises when you are happy."

18. When God leads you to an edge of a cliff, trust Him fully and let go. Because only 1 of two things may happen, either He'll catch you when you fall or He'll teach you how to fly.

19. The greatest mistakes we make are the risks we didn't take. If you think something will make you happy, go for it so that you won't live your life asking "WHAT IT? and telling yourself "IF ONLY!"

20. "The early bird gets the worm". But has it ever occured to you that the early worm gets eaten? Being first may not necessarily be good, because the first mouse gets trapped, but the second one gets the cheese. We can either be the bird or the worm, the first mouse or the second. Life is a matter of perspective. We can whine, groan and moan, or we can take the time to learn, love and laugh. Complete with all its challenges, life is a great adventure to be enjoyed.

21. The Law of the Seed: Most seeds never grow. For one apple tree to bear 500 apples, you need 10 seeds. In life, this principle might mean you'll need to attend 20 interviews to get one job, talk to 50 people to sell one house, or meet 1000 acquiantances to have one special person. If we really want to make things happen, we usually need to try more than once. That's the law of nature. Don't take it personally. Just understand and work with it.

22. A sailor was stuck in an island where he is the only survivor. He made a hut for his shelter. Day and night he is praying and waiting for someone to rescue him but no one came. He stored foods in the hut for his survival, but one day the hut was burnt into ashes and he had nothing left. He was so angry and said: "God, why have you done this to me?"The next morning rescuers came. He asked: "How did you know that I'm here?"They replied, ""We saw a smoke signal."Then he realized that when his hut is burning, something good was happening.

Warren Buffett- The new richest man in the world

There was a one-hour interview on CNBC with Warren Buffett, the richest man who has donated $31 billion to charity.

Here are some very interesting aspects of his life:

1) He bought his first stock share at age 11 and he now regrets that he started too late!

2) He bought a small farm at age 14 with savings from delivering newspapers.

3) He still lives in the same small 3-bedroom house in mid-town Omaha, that he bought after he got married 50 years ago. He says that he has everything he needs in that house. His house does not have a wall or a fence.

4) He drives his own car everywhere and does not have a driver or security people around him.

5) He never travels by private jet, although he owns the world's largest private jet company.

6) His company, Berkshire Hathaway, owns 63 companies. He writes onlyone letter each year to the CEOs of these companies, giving them goals for the year. He never holds meetings or calls them on a regular basis.

7) He has given his CEOs only two rules. Rule number 1: do not lose any of your shareholder' s money. Rule number 2: Do not forget rule number 1.

8) He does not socialize with the high society crowd.His past time, after he gets home, is to make himself some pop corn and watch television.

9) Bill Gates, the previous world's richest man met him for the first time only 5 years ago. Bill Gates did not think he had anything in common with Warren Buffet. So he had scheduled his meeting only for half an hour.But when Gates met him, the meeting lasted for ten hours and Bill Gates became a devotee of Warren Buffett.

10) Warren Buffett does not carry a cell phone, nor has a computer on his desk.

11) His advice to young people: Stay away from credit cards and invest in yourself. Remember money doesn't create man but it is the man who creates money.

Live your life as simple as you are.

Don't do what others say, just listen to them , but do what you feel good.Don't go on brand names, just wear those things inwhich u feel comfortable in.

Don't waste your money on unnecessary things; just spend on what you really need.

Bill Gates

Bill Gates On LIFE

-- Primarily by Bill Gates

Love him or hate him, he sure hits the nail on the head with this...To anyone with kids, of any age, or anyone who has ever been a kid, here's some advice Bill Gates dished out at a high school speech about 11 things they did not learn in school. He talks about how feel-good politically correct teachings created a full generation of kids with no concept of reality and how this concept set them up for failure in the real world.

Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it.

Rule 2: The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3: You will NOT make 40 thousand dollars a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone, until you earn both.

Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait until you get a boss. He doesn't have tenure.

Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping - they called it opportunity.

Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you are. So, before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parents' generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers but life has not. In some schools they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself. Do that on your own time.

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life (nor are video games). In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

Love your job but never fall in love with your company

LOVE YOUR JOB, BUT NEVER FALL IN LOVE WITH YOUR COMPANY

LOVE YOUR JOB, BUT NEVER FALL IN LOVE WITH YOUR COMPANY BCOZ U NEVER KNOW WHEN COMPANY STOPS LOVING YOU - Narayana Murthy

Extract of Mr. Narayana Murthy's Speech during Mentor Session: I know people who work 12 hours a day, six days a week, or more. Some People do so because of a work emergency where the long hours are only temporary.

Other people I know have put in these hours for years. I don't know if they are working all these hours, but I do know they are in the office this long. Others put in long office hours because they are addicted to the workplace. Whatever the reason for putting in overtime, working long hours over the long term is harmful to the person and to the organization.

There are things managers can do to change this for everyone's benefit. Being in the office long hours, over long periods of time, makes way For potential errors. My colleagues who are in the office long hours Frequently make mistakes caused by fatigue. Correcting these mistakes requires Their time as well as the time and energy of others. I have seen people work Tuesday through Friday to correct mistakes made after 5 PM on Monday. Another problem is that people who are in the office long hours are not pleasant company. They often complain about other people (who aren't working as hard); they are irritable, or cranky, or even angry. Other people avoid them.

Such behaviour poses problems, where work goes much better when people work together instead of avoiding one another. As Managers, there are things we can do to help people leave the office. First and foremost is to set the example and go home ourselves. I work with a manager who chides people for working long hours. His words quickly lose their meaning when he sends these chiding group e-mails with a time-stamp of 2 AM, Sunday. Second is to encourage people to put some balance in their lives.

For instance, here is a guideline I find helpful:

1) Wake up, eat a good breakfast, and go to work.

2) Work hard and smart for eight or nine hours.

3) Go home.

4) Read the comics, watch a funny movie, dig in the dirt, play with your kids, etc.

5) Eat well and sleep well.

This is called recreating. Doing steps 1, 3, 4, and 5 enable step 2. Working regular hours and recreating daily are simple concepts. They are hard for some of us because that requires personal change.

They are possible since we all have the power to choose to do them. In considering the issue of overtime, I am reminded of my oldest son. When he was a toddler, if people were visiting the apartment, he would not fall asleep no matter how long the visit, and no matter what time of day it was. He would fight off sleep until the visitors left. It was as if he was afraid that he would miss something. Once our visitors' left, he would go to sleep. By this time, however, he was over tired and would scream through half the night with nightmares. He, my wife, and I, all paid the price for his fear of missing out.

Perhaps some people put in such long hours because they don't want to miss anything when they leave the office. The trouble with this is that events will never stop happening. That is life!! Things happen 24 hours a day. Allowing for little rest is not ultimately practical. So, take a nap. Things will happen while you're asleep, but you will have the energy to catch up when you wake.

Hence "LOVE YOUR JOB BUT NEVER FALL IN LOVE WITH YOUR COMPANY"

Two Travelling Angels

It was forwarded by one of my friends. I was inspired by this story that's why I featured this as my first article here. I hope you will inspire the same.

Two Traveling Angels

Two traveling angels stopped to spend the night in the home of a wealthy family. The family was rude and refused to let the angels stay in the mansion's guest room.Instead the angels were given a small space in the cold basement. As they made their bed on the hard floor, the older angel saw a hole in thewall and repaired it. When the younger angel asked why, the older angel replied, "Things aren't always what they seem."

The next night the pair came to rest at the house of a very poor, but very hospitable farmer and his wife. After sharing what little food they had the couple let the angels sleep in their bed where they could have a good night's rest.When the sun came up the next morning the angels found the farmer and his wife in tears. Their only cow, whose milk had been their sole income, lay dead in the field. The younger angel was infuriated and asked the older angel how could you have let this happen?The first man had everything, yet you helped him, she accused. The second family had little but was willing to share everything, and you let the cow die. "Things aren't always what they seem," the older angel replied."

When we stayed in the basement of the mansion, I noticed there was gold stored in that hole in the wall. Since the owner was so obsessed with greed and unwilling to share his good fortune, I sealed the wall so he wouldn't find it.""Then last night as we slept in the farmers bed, the angel of death came for his wife. I gave him the cow instead. Things aren't always what they seem." Sometimes that is exactly what happens when things don't turn out the way they should. If you have faith, you just need to trust that every out come is always to your advantage. You just might not know it until some time later.