Inspirational Quotes
Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of : Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, and the full fledged devotion to god. Faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
Obstacles are great incentives.
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
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.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
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.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
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 ?
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
For with god all things are possible.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.