Inspirational Quotes
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
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.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
My life is my message.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcomed invaluable, but it does not free him from responsibility.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
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.
Seize the day.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
Make the second effort your second nature.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
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 ?
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
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.
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
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.
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving 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.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
Let thy words be few.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
This is the true joy the being used for a purpose recognized as a might one.
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.