Inspirational Quotes
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
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.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
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.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
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.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
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.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
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.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
They alone live, who live for others.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
Grow deep - not just tall.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
They can because they think they can.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.