Inspirational Quotes
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
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.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
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.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
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.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Never complain about what you permit.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
If you would create something, you must be something.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
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.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
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.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
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.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
Never stop dreaming.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
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.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
You become what you think about.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.