Inspirational Quotes
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
Don't fear, just live right.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
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.
Anything is possible.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Well done is better than well said.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
Actions speak louder than words.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
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.
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
The best things in life are free.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
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.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
Never spend your money before you have it.