Inspirational Quotes
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Success is the child of audacity.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
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.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
You always succeed in producing a result.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
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.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
You do not pay the price of success, you enjoy the price of success.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Be the best that you can be.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
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.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
Hope springs eternal.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
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.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
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.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
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.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
Believe in yourself.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.