Inspirational Quotes
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true, this I have learnt after suffering all my life, all else is mere moonshine.
Be who you are in every situation.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
I never read a food column and think 'Wow I value your opinion' because everyone has an opinion now. What makes a columnist an expert? If you stay focused on your own goal, you'll be fine. It's when you start looking too far out that you're going to get lost.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.
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.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
Children are all foreigners.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
Above all, beware of compromises. Hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others fads through the greed of getting supporters. Your atman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of ?
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
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.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
The best way out is always through.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
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.
Laughter is the best medicine.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.