Inspirational Quotes
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
Adventure is worthwhile.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
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.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
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.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
Happiness is a state of activity.
So whether or not we can get together, remember well that art lives where absolute freedom is. With all the training thrown to nowhere, with a mind perfectly unaware of its own working, with the self vanishing nowhere the art of JKD attains its perfection.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
After every happiness comes misery, they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature, both are chains -- one iron, one gold , behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change , but the nature of the atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it, only wash away the dross and see it.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Don't water your weeds.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.
Happiness is a choice.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
Live life with passion.
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.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
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.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
Truth fears no questions.
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
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
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.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
It's not about the money. It's about what you feel you deserve.