Inspirational Quotes
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
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.
Honesty is the best image.
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.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.
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 !
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
I love Ray, and I love how he always spoke from the heart, but if you listened to those speeches, a lot of them didn't even make sense. He meant everything he was saying, but I didn't know what he was talking about 90 percent of the time.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
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.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
Kindness is always fashionable.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
This is the beginning of a new day.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Hope springs eternal.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.