Inspirational Quotes
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to god.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
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.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
The past does not equal the future.
There is time for everything.
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Experience is the best teacher.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
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 you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
No pain, No gain.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
Things do not change we change.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
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.
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.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
Unfortunately, most of the students in martial art are conformers. The student seldom learns to depend upon himself for expression. Instead, he faithfully or blindly follows an instructor, the authority figure, and his instructor's imposed pattern. That way, the student feels he is no longer alone and finds security in mass imitation. However, what is nurtured is the dependent mind rather than independent inquiry, which is so essential to genuine understanding. So through daily conditioning a student will probably be skilled according to a pattern, however, he will not come to understand himself.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
The sun will come up tomorrow
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
One man with courage is a majority.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
Be who you are in every situation.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
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 say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
Ability is sexless.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
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.