Inspirational Quotes
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.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
Never Quit.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
Attitude determines altitude.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
Many hands make light work.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
Let's roll.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
For with god all things are possible.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
Be not afraid of growing slowly, be afraid only of standing still.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
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.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
He who hesitates is lost !
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
After your jump, the net appears.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
Every human heart is human.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
So whether or not we can get together, remember well that art lives where absolute freedom is. With all the training thrown to nowhere, with a mind perfectly unaware of its own working, with the self vanishing nowhere the art of JKD attains its perfection.