Inspirational Quotes
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
Reach for the stars.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Every human heart is human.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
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 important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
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.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
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.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
Never complain about what you permit.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
The cherokee people are not "my people".
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.
Don't fear, just live right.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.