Inspirational Quotes
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
Where there is love there is no darkness.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
You always succeed in producing a result.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
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.
Every dog has his day.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
Live with passion.
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Life is what you make it.
I am the captain of my soul.
Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moments you reject all help, are you free. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
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.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
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.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
We have not yet begun to fight.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
Make the second effort your second nature.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
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.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Fortune favors the brave.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
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.
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.