Inspirational Quotes
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Success is the child of audacity.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Hard work pays off.
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
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.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
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.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
After your jump, the net appears.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Keep the Faith.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.