Inspirational Quotes
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
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.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
Love conquers all.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
Above all, beware of compromises. Hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others fads through the greed of getting supporters. Your atman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of ?
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
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.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
Carpe diem.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
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''.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
You can do what you want to do.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Talkers are no good doers.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
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.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
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.
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.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
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.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.