Inspirational Quotes
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
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
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Love understands all languages.
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.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
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.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon- instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
The beginning is the half of every action.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
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
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.
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.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
Never say more than is necessary.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
Every human heart is human.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
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.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Action is the antidote to despair.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
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.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.