Inspirational Quotes
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
You become what you think about.
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
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.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
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.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
I light my candle from their torches.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
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.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Where there's life, there's hope.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
You can do what you want to do.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
They can because they think they can.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
Above all, beware of compromises. Hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others fads through the greed of getting supporters. Your atman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of ?
There are no gains without pains.
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
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.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
Well done is better than well said.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.