Inspirational Quotes
No man is free who is not master of himself.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
Do it now !
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
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.
Don't think it, ink it.
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.
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Live with passion.
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
Well done is better than well said.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
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.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
Those who laugh - last!!
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''