Inspirational Quotes
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Happiness is a choice.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
Above all, beware of compromises. Hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others fads through the greed of getting supporters. Your atman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of ?
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
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.
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.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Success is never wondering what if.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
Nothing succeeds like success.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Do it now !
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
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.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
I think therefore I am
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.