Inspirational Quotes
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Success leaves clues.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.
This is the beginning of a new day.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
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.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
You always succeed in producing a result.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Roll with the punches.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
Life is what you make it.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
Never stop dreaming.
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.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.