Inspirational Quotes
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'.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
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.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Things do not change we change.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
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.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
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.
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
The road to success is always under construction.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
You can do what you want to do.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of : Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, and the full fledged devotion to god. Faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.