Inspirational Quotes
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
There's always a way - if you're committed.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Be Here Now.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
Above all, beware of compromises. Hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others fads through the greed of getting supporters. Your atman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of ?
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
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.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
Never stop dreaming.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
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.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
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.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
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.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
Grow deep - not just tall.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
Hunker down.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Live your dreams.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Think and grow rich.
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.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.