Inspirational Quotes
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
What ever you are be a good one.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
You are what you think you are.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
Love understands all languages.
It ain't over till it's over.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
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.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
If there is a will, there is a way.
If it is to be it is up to me.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
Never say more than is necessary.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
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.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
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 only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
You're gonna have to learn your cliches. You're gonna have to study them, you're gonna have to learn them, you're gonna have to know them. They're your friends. Write this down: "We gotta play 'em one day at a time."
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
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.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.