Inspirational Quotes
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
Seize the day.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
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.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
In love beggar and king are equal.
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.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Reach for the stars.
All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
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. '
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Don't water your weeds.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
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.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
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.
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.