Inspirational Quotes
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Success leaves clues.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
I am the captain of my soul.
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Only the educated are free.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of : Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, and the full fledged devotion to god. Faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
The beginning is the half of every action.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
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.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
The show must go on.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
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 greater the obstacle the more glory.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
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.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
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.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
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.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
It's not about the money. It's about what you feel you deserve.
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.