Inspirational Quotes
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
After every happiness comes misery, they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature, both are chains -- one iron, one gold , behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change , but the nature of the atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it, only wash away the dross and see it.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
Kind words conquer.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
The best things in life are not things.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
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.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
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.
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
Never spend your money before you have it.
Never say die.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
How far you go in life depends on you 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.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
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.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
A leader is a dealer in hope.