Inspirational Quotes
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
First get rid of the delusion "I am the body", and then only can we want real knowledge.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
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.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
Never stop dreaming.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
What ever you are be a good one.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to god.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
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 get to make a living , we give to make a life.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
I am the captain of my soul.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
Hunker down.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
Change your thoughts, change your life.
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
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.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
Live with passion !
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
To go fast, row slowly.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
Know thyself.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
May you live all the days of your life.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
For with god all things are possible.
Barring serious accidents, if you are not preoccupied with worry and you work hard, you can look forward to a reasonably lengthy existence. Its not the hard work that kills, its the worrying that kills.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
My life is my message.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
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.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
You create your reality.
No man can succeed in a line of endeavor which he does not like.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
Unfortunately, most of the students in martial art are conformers. The student seldom learns to depend upon himself for expression. Instead, he faithfully or blindly follows an instructor, the authority figure, and his instructor's imposed pattern. That way, the student feels he is no longer alone and finds security in mass imitation. However, what is nurtured is the dependent mind rather than independent inquiry, which is so essential to genuine understanding. So through daily conditioning a student will probably be skilled according to a pattern, however, he will not come to understand himself.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.