Inspirational Quotes
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
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.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
It's always too soon to quit !
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
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.
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
The road to success is always under construction.
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
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.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
Don't fear, just live right.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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.
The sun will come up tomorrow
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
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.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
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.
The past does not equal the future.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
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.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
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
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.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
Live your life and forget your age.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.
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.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.