Inspirational Quotes
The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
Better late than never.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
They alone live, who live for others.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
We will either find a way or make one.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
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.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
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.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Happiness is a choice.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
Life is change, growth is optional. Choose wisely.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
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 ?
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'