Inspirational Quotes
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
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.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
Remove failure as an option.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
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.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
They can because they think they can.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
You're on the road to success when you realize that failure is only a detour.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
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.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.
After your jump, the net appears.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
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 principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
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.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
Never Quit.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.