Whatever you are be a good one.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
The truth is more important than the facts.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Don't quit.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
None are homely who smile.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
The best way out is always through.
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 ?
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
I think therefore I am
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Every human heart is human.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
If you would create something, you must be something.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Never Quit.