Inspirational Quotes
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
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.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Above all, beware of compromises. Hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others fads through the greed of getting supporters. Your atman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of ?
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcomed invaluable, but it does not free him from responsibility.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
Life is what you make it.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
Think and grow rich.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
Happiness is a choice.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
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.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
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.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
Above all to thine own self be true.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
It's not about the money. It's about what you feel you deserve.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
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.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
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.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
We have not yet begun to fight.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
This too, shall pass.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Without a general an army is lost.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.