Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
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.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of : Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, and the full fledged devotion to god. Faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.
Ability is sexless.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
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.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
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.
Security is a kind of death.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
One man with courage is a majority.
Make the second effort your second nature.
One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
Kind words conquer.
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.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
Success is the child of audacity.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.