Inspirational Quotes
If you can dream it, you can do it.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Things do not change we change.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
Attitude is everything.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moments you reject all help, are you free. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
The past does not equal the future.
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.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
Success is never wondering what if.
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 ?
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
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.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
Strike while the iron is hot.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
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.
Live with passion.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.