Inspirational Quotes
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
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.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
This too, shall pass.
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.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
Live with passion.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.
Embrace your inner voice.
Practice makes perfect.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.