Inspirational Quotes
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
You only get out what you put in.
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 something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
One man with courage is a majority.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
Love understands all languages.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
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.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
Roll with the punches.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
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 ?
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
Never, never, never give up.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
Count your blessings.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is ; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
You become what you think about.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Faith can move mountains.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
Happiness is a state of mind.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
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 ?
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
Success is predictable.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
If a man does his best, what else is there ?