Inspirational Quotes
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
No man is wise enough by himself.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
We must be the change we wish to see.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
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.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
The truth is more important than the facts.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.
They are able because they think they are able.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
Each action can be the one on which all depends , what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment'.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
Change comes from within.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
Ability is sexless.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
I am the captain of my soul.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.