Inspirational Quotes
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.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Security is a kind of death.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
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.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
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.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Be who you are in every situation.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
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.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Do it now !
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
Be the best that you can be.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
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.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
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.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
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.