Inspirational Quotes
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
I assume everybody thinks they're a top-five quarterback. I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
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.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
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.
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
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.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
Slow but steady wins the race.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
Truth fears no questions.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
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.
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
Honesty is the best image.
Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
Never say die.
There are no gains without pains.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
No pain, No gain.
You become what you think about.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Ideas without action are worthless.
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.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.