Inspirational Quotes
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
The buck stops here.
There is time for everything.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
Children are all foreigners.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
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.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
God doesn't make junk.
Love sees roses without thorns.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
Ideas without action are worthless.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
Practice makes perfect.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Don't think it, ink it.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Truth fears no questions.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
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.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
Do it now !
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.