Inspirational Quotes
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
Ideas without action are worthless.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
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.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
May you live all the days of your life.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
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.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
High expectations are the key to everything.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
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.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
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 speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
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.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
This is the beginning of a new day.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
Success is predictable.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
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.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.