Inspirational Quotes
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
What concerns me is not the way things are, but rather the way people think things are.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
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Success is the child of audacity.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
Be all you can be.
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.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
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 do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
We have not yet begun to fight.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
Live life with passion.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.