Inspirational Quotes
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
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.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Hunker down.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
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.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
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 you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Happiness is the indication that man has found the answer to the problem of human existence the productive realization of his potentialities and thus, simultaneously, being one with the world and preserving the integrity of his self.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall , but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
Security is a kind of death.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
Never, never, never give up.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
You are what you think you are.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
One rule of action more important than all others is consists in never doing anything that someone else can do for you.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.