Inspirational Quotes
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
Know thyself.
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.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
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 ?
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
Better late than never.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
Faith can move mountains.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
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.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
Self-knowledge is the basis of JKD because it is effective, not only for the individuals martial art, but also for his life as a human being.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
Live your life and forget your age.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
Many hands make light work.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Success is predictable.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
They can because they think they can.
It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get back up.
The sun will come up tomorrow
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
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.
Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of : Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, and the full fledged devotion to god. Faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
I never read a food column and think 'Wow I value your opinion' because everyone has an opinion now. What makes a columnist an expert? If you stay focused on your own goal, you'll be fine. It's when you start looking too far out that you're going to get lost.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.