Inspirational Quotes
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Be who you are in every situation.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
To ask the hard question is simple.
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.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
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.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
Talkers are no good doers.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
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.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.