Inspirational Quotes
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
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.
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.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Don't ever give up.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Keep away from small 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.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Seize the day.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
Know thyself.
Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
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.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
In all the other movies that I’ve done, as well as my life. You know, I’ve been tagged. I guess we all have been tagged, right? We’re all alive. Right here, right now! This is happening. We’re alive!
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
For with god all things are possible.
If it is to be it is up to me.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
Every human heart is human.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
The beginning is the half of every action.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
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 comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
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 ?
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
Necessity is the mother of invention.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
Where there is a will, there is a way.