Inspirational Quotes
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.
Reach for the stars.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
Children are all foreigners.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
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.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
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.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.
Happiness is a state of mind.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
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.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
Live life with passion.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
So whether or not we can get together, remember well that art lives where absolute freedom is. With all the training thrown to nowhere, with a mind perfectly unaware of its own working, with the self vanishing nowhere the art of JKD attains its perfection.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
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.
Truth fears no questions.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.