Inspirational Quotes
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
Never complain about what you permit.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
One man with courage is a majority.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
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.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
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.
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.
The sun will come up tomorrow
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
The best way out is always through.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
Without a general an army is lost.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
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.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.