Inspirational Quotes
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Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
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.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
This is the beginning of a new day.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
Love sees roses without thorns.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
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.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
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.
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.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
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.
Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
Kind words conquer.
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
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.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
Do or do not, there is no try.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
Where there is love there is no darkness.
God doesn't make junk.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.