Inspirational Quotes
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
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.
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
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.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
You always succeed in producing a result.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
No involvement, no commitment.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon- instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
Live your life and forget your age.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
Practice makes perfect.
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
In love beggar and king are equal.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
A bold onset is half the battle.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
The ready back gets all the loads.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
The buck stops here.
The truth is more important than the facts.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
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.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.