Inspirational Quotes
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
Nothing succeeds like success.
Live your life and forget your age.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Ideas... they have the power
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
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.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
May you live all the days of your life.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
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.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
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.
Happiness is the indication that man has found the answer to the problem of human existence the productive realization of his potentialities and thus, simultaneously, being one with the world and preserving the integrity of his self.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
For with god all things are possible.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
Change comes from within.
How far you go in life depends on your 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.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
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.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
Grow deep - not just tall.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.