Inspirational Quotes
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.
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.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
Great men are not always wise.
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.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
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.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Think and grow rich.
My friends are my estate.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
Know thyself.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
Never say die.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
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.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.