Inspirational Quotes
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of : Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, and the full fledged devotion to god. Faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
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.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
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.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
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.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
We need to embrace that the things that we love come to an end. And to not take them for granted. To step back & make sure we really live in the moments which matter to us. Not just being there as a participant. But to really be there a 100%.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
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.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
They alone live, who live for others.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
They can because they think they can.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
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.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
Fortune favors the brave.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
Talkers are no good doers.