Inspirational Quotes
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
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
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to god.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
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.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
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.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
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.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
Carpe diem.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
So whether or not we can get together, remember well that art lives where absolute freedom is. With all the training thrown to nowhere, with a mind perfectly unaware of its own working, with the self vanishing nowhere the art of JKD attains its perfection.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
Laughter is the best medicine.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
Where there is love there is no darkness.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
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
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
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.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Never, never, never give up.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?