Inspirational Quotes
Attitude determines altitude.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
Know thyself.
My friends are my estate.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
He who hesitates is lost.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
After every happiness comes misery, they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature, both are chains -- one iron, one gold , behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change , but the nature of the atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it, only wash away the dross and see it.
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
It's always too soon to quit !
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
The sun will come up tomorrow
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
If it is to be it is up to me.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.