Inspirational Quotes
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
When asked about clinching a playoff berth for Cleveland Browns during the 2023 NFL regular season - "You don't know how many of these moments you're going to get. Not too many people get the opportunity to have kids as old as mine and that understand what's going on - get to witness this. I'm going to remember this for the rest of my life. And anything that you get to do with people that you love, especially your children, they just make everything that much more special."
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
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.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
Embrace that it's ok to grow.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
Live with passion !
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
If there is a will, there is a way.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
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.
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
If you would create something, you must be something.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. quotes
High expectations are the key to everything.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
He who hesitates is lost !
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
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.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.