Inspirational Quotes
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
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.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
Great men are not always wise.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
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.
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.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
Live with passion.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
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.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
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.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
Don't quit.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
Talkers are no good doers.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
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.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
He who hesitates is lost !
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
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.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
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.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcomed invaluable, but it does not free him from responsibility.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.