Inspirational Quotes
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
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.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
Attitude determines altitude.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Don't ever give up.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
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.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
Laughter is the best medicine.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
When asked about clinching a playoff berth for Cleveland Browns during the 2023 NFL regular season - "You don't know how many of these moments you're going to get. Not too many people get the opportunity to have kids as old as mine and that understand what's going on - get to witness this. I'm going to remember this for the rest of my life. And anything that you get to do with people that you love, especially your children, they just make everything that much more special."
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love ?
I light my candle from their torches.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Every artist was first an amateur.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
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.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.