Inspirational Quotes
Well done is better than well said.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
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.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
He who has hope has everything.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
Find the good -- and praise it.
Attitude is everything.
Each action can be the one on which all depends , what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment'.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
Never spend your money before you have it.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.