Inspirational Quotes
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
The road to success is always under construction.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
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.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
If there is a will, there is a way.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
Change comes from within.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
If it is to be it is up to me.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
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.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded
Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
The book you don't read cant help.
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
Kind words conquer.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
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.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
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''.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.