Inspirational Quotes
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
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.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
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.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of : Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, and the full fledged devotion to god. Faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Never, never, never give up.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
The world belongs to the energetic.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
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.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
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 ?
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.