Inspirational Quotes
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Live your dreams.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true, this I have learnt after suffering all my life, all else is mere moonshine.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
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.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Every human heart is human.
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
Don't fear, just live right.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
The best way out is always through.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
Anything is possible.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
Live your life and forget your age.
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
Seize the day.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
The ready back gets all the loads.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
In love beggar and king are equal.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'
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.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.