Inspirational Quotes
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
Love sees roses without thorns.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
After every happiness comes misery, they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature, both are chains -- one iron, one gold , behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change , but the nature of the atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it, only wash away the dross and see it.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
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
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
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.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
Think and grow rich.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Never stop dreaming.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
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.