Inspirational Quotes
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
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.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
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.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
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.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
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.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
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.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
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.
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.
Never spend your money before you have it.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
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.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
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.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.