Inspirational Quotes
It's not about the money. It's about what you feel you deserve.
After every happiness comes misery, they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature, both are chains -- one iron, one gold , behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change , but the nature of the atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it, only wash away the dross and see it.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
Hard work pays off.
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.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
Change comes from within.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
Be Here Now.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
The ready back gets all the loads.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
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.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
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.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.
Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.