Inspirational Quotes
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
Be Here Now.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
Don't fear, just live right.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
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.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
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.
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.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
It's always too soon to quit !
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
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.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
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.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
Love conquers all.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.