Inspirational Quotes
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
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.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
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.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.
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.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
Where there's life, there's hope.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
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.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
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.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
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.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
Security is a kind of death.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
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.