Inspirational Quotes
No man is wise enough by himself.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
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.
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.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
No pain, No gain.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
Live life to the fullest.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
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 !
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
Change comes from within.
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
Honesty is the best image.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
Our intentions create our reality.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.