Inspirational Quotes
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
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.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
High expectations are the key to everything.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
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.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
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.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
All work is empty save when there is love.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
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.
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 ?
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.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
Don't think it, ink it.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
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.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
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.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Well done is better than well said.
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
Strike while the iron is hot.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Never, never, never give up.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.