Inspirational Quotes
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" through the greed of getting supporters.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
Don't be hard on yourself. Embrace your journey with kindness and patience, recognizing that every step, even the small ones, is a part of your growth.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
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.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
It's always too soon to quit !
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
The best things in life are not things.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is ; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
No pain, No gain.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
Happiness is a state of mind.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed We hold these truths to be self-evident , that all men are created equal.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Don't water your weeds.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of : Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, and the full fledged devotion to god. Faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Our intentions create our reality.
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your 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.
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.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.