Inspirational Quotes
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
Adventure is worthwhile.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
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.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true, this I have learnt after suffering all my life, all else is mere moonshine.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
You must motivate yourself every day.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
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.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
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.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Those who laugh - last!!
What ever you are be a good one.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
Live life with passion.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
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.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
Success is never wondering what if.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" through the greed of getting supporters.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.