Inspirational Quotes
Don't ever give up.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
So whether or not we can get together, remember well that art lives where absolute freedom is. With all the training thrown to nowhere, with a mind perfectly unaware of its own working, with the self vanishing nowhere the art of JKD attains its perfection.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
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 ?
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
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.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to god.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
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.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
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.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
The best things in life are free.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
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.'
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
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.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Our intentions create our reality.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
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.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
You really can change the world if you care enough.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true, this I have learnt after suffering all my life, all else is mere moonshine.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
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He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
It ain't over till it's over.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.