Inspirational Quotes
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
Remove failure as an option.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
Be all you can be.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
Many hands make light work.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
In all the other movies that I’ve done, as well as my life. You know, I’ve been tagged. I guess we all have been tagged, right? We’re all alive. Right here, right now! This is happening. We’re alive!
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
No man is wise enough by himself.
Fortune favors the brave.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
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.
Follow your dreams.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
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.
Never complain about what you permit.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
Live life with passion.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
Change comes from within.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Strike while the iron is hot.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
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.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
My friends are my estate.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.