Inspirational Quotes
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I possess, and the way to develop the best in a person is by appreciation and encouragement. I believe in giving people incentive to work. So I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
After every happiness comes misery, they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature, both are chains -- one iron, one gold , behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change , but the nature of the atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it, only wash away the dross and see it.
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
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.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
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.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
How far you go in life depends on your 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.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
He who has hope has everything.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
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 !
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
Better late than never.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
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.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
They can because they think they can.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves in contentment.
All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
You are made from the same energy source that has created the oceans, the forests, the mountains, the valleys and all the stars in the sky. So tell me again, why you don't have the strength and power to create whatever you desire?
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
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.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.