Inspirational Quotes
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
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.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
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.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
No one became poor by giving alms.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
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.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
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.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
The truth is more important than the facts.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
To go fast, row slowly.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Be who you are in every situation.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
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There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
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.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
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.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
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.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.