Inspirational Quotes
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
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.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
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.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
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.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
He who has hope has everything.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
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.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
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.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
Children are all foreigners.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.