Inspirational Quotes
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
The best things in life are not things.
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't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
Hope springs eternal.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
Old love does not rust.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
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.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
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.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
Unfortunately, most of the students in martial art are conformers. The student seldom learns to depend upon himself for expression. Instead, he faithfully or blindly follows an instructor, the authority figure, and his instructor's imposed pattern. That way, the student feels he is no longer alone and finds security in mass imitation. However, what is nurtured is the dependent mind rather than independent inquiry, which is so essential to genuine understanding. So through daily conditioning a student will probably be skilled according to a pattern, however, he will not come to understand himself.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
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.
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
Don't be hard on yourself. Embrace your journey with kindness and patience, recognizing that every step, even the small ones, is a part of your growth.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
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.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
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.
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.
The road to success is always under construction.
You can do what you want to do.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
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.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to 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.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.