Inspirational Quotes
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
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.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
The greatest humiliation in life is to work hard on something from which you expect appreciation, and then fail to get it.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
You only get out what you put in.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
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.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
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.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
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.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
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.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Honesty is the best image.
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.
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
The successful man is the average man, focused.