Inspirational Quotes
How far you go in life depends on your 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.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
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.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
The best things in life are free.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
Find the good -- and praise it.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
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.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
There are no gains without pains.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
The book you don't read cant help.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
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 one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
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.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
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.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
Don't be hard on yourself. Embrace your journey with kindness and patience, recognizing that every step, even the small ones, is a part of your growth.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.