Inspirational Quotes
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
Old love does not rust.
Better late than never.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
Each action can be the one on which all depends , what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment'.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
Live with passion !
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
Be all you can be.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
Embrace that it's ok to grow.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Strike while the iron is hot.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
Anything is possible.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
They can because they think they can.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
No involvement, no commitment.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
There are no gains without pains.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.