Inspirational Quotes
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
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.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
After every happiness comes misery, they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature, both are chains -- one iron, one gold , behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change , but the nature of the atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it, only wash away the dross and see it.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Embrace your inner voice.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
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.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
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.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Live your dreams.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
They can because they think they can.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
Action is the antidote to despair.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
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.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.