An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
The beginning is the half of every action.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
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.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
Be the best that you can be.
Success is never wondering what if.
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.
It ain't over till it's over.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Old love does not rust.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Never, never, never give up.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
Believe in yourself.
I am the captain of my soul.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
Strike while the iron is hot.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
Be who you are in every situation.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.