Inspirational Quotes
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
Grow deep - not just tall.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
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.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
You can do what you want to do.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
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.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
Happiness is a state of mind.
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
No man is wise enough by himself.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
No pain, No gain.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
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?
So whether or not we can get together, remember well that art lives where absolute freedom is. With all the training thrown to nowhere, with a mind perfectly unaware of its own working, with the self vanishing nowhere the art of JKD attains its perfection.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
It is always your next move.
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
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.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
Keep the Faith.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
Old love does not rust.
Know thyself.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
Live life with passion.
Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go, the sooner the better.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.