Inspirational Quotes
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Remove failure as an option.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
Kind words conquer.
Kindness is always fashionable.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
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.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
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 best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
One joy scatters a hundred griefs.
Great men are not always wise.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.
Success is never wondering what if.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true, this I have learnt after suffering all my life, all else is mere moonshine.
Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
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.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
Laughter is the best medicine.
You only get out what you put in.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.