Inspirational Quotes
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
All work is empty save when there is love.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
The best things in life are free.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
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.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
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 ?
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
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.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
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 know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
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.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
To go fast, row slowly.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.