Inspirational Quotes
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
Love sees roses without thorns.
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to god.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
Live your life and forget your age.
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
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.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
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.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
Embrace that it's ok to grow.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
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.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.