Inspirational Quotes
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
The book you don't read cant help.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
We must be the change we wish to see.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Those who laugh - last!!
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
Better late than never.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
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.
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
I love Ray, and I love how he always spoke from the heart, but if you listened to those speeches, a lot of them didn't even make sense. He meant everything he was saying, but I didn't know what he was talking about 90 percent of the time.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
Never say die.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
Ability is sexless.
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
Only the educated are free.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcomed invaluable, but it does not free him from responsibility.
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.
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''.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.