Inspirational Quotes
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.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcomed invaluable, but it does not free him from responsibility.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
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.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
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.
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.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
Never complain about what you permit.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
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.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Let thy words be few.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.