Inspirational Quotes
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
Be who you are in every situation.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
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.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
The best things in life are not things.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
The book you don't read cant help.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
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.
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
The time is always right to do what is right.
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.
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 ?
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
The buck stops here.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
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.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
Our intentions create our reality.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
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.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
There are no gains without pains.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
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.
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.