Inspirational Quotes
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'
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.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
Live with passion.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
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.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
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.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
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.
High expectations are the key to everything.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
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.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcomed invaluable, but it does not free him from responsibility.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
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.