Inspirational Quotes
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
You must motivate yourself every day.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
Faith can move mountains.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
Ideas... they have the power
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.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
Our intentions create our reality.
Let thy words be few.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
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.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
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.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
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.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
Reach for the stars.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
Hunker down.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
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.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
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.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
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.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
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.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
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.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.