Inspirational Quotes
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
Where there's life, there's hope.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
They are able because they think they are able.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true, this I have learnt after suffering all my life, all else is mere moonshine.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
You create your reality.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
Strike while the iron is hot.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
You only get out what you put in.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
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%.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" through the greed of getting supporters.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
Embrace that it's ok to grow.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
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.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
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.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Unfortunately, most of the students in martial art are conformers. The student seldom learns to depend upon himself for expression. Instead, he faithfully or blindly follows an instructor, the authority figure, and his instructor's imposed pattern. That way, the student feels he is no longer alone and finds security in mass imitation. However, what is nurtured is the dependent mind rather than independent inquiry, which is so essential to genuine understanding. So through daily conditioning a student will probably be skilled according to a pattern, however, he will not come to understand himself.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.