Inspirational Quotes
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
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.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
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.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
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.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Actions speak louder than words.
The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
It's not about the money. It's about what you feel you deserve.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
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.
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 ?
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
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.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
Don't water your weeds.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
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.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
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.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.