Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of : Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, and the full fledged devotion to god. Faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers.
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
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.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
The Missouri is, perhaps, different in appearance and character from all other rivers in the world. There is a terror in its manner which is sensibly felt, the moment we enter its muddy waters from the Mississippi.
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.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
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.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
The beginning is the half of every action.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
The doctor and the pastor ask about your health, but eternity makes you responsible for your condition.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
Roll with the punches.
The past does not equal the future.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
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.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.