Inspirational Quotes
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Be Here Now.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.
He who hesitates is lost.
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
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 not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Fortune favors the brave.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
Don't think it, ink it.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
He who stops being better stops being good.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
Every artist was first an amateur.
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.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
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.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
Never stop dreaming.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
They alone live, who live for others.