Inspirational Quotes
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
He who hesitates is lost.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
Do or do not, there is no try.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
For with god all things are possible.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
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.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
There is time for everything.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
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.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
All of the subjects that I've chosen have had to do with isolation. ... The whole idea of [people] gathering ... doesn't really appeal to me.
You must do the things you think you cannot do.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Every dog has his day.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
Think and grow rich.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
Faith can move mountains.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
He who stops being better stops being good.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
There are no gains without pains.