Inspirational Quotes
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
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.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
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.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
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.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
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.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
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.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
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.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
You are made from the same energy source that has created the oceans, the forests, the mountains, the valleys and all the stars in the sky. So tell me again, why you don't have the strength and power to create whatever you desire?
The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
One man with courage is a majority.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
I assume everybody thinks they're a top-five quarterback. I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
Each action can be the one on which all depends , what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment'.