Inspirational Quotes
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.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
Well done is better than well said.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
Ability is sexless.
Grow deep - not just tall.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
Do or do not, there is no try.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
Practice makes perfect.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
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.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
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.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
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.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
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.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
Don't be hard on yourself. Embrace your journey with kindness and patience, recognizing that every step, even the small ones, is a part of your growth.
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
Action is the antidote to despair.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
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.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Better late than never.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
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.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
Life is what you make it.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -