Inspirational Quotes
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
Fortune favors the brave.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
There's always a way - if you're committed.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
The show must go on.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
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.
Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moments you reject all help, are you free. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
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.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
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.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.