Inspirational Quotes
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
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.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
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.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
Don't think it, ink it.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Success leaves clues.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
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.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Science may have found a cure for most evils , but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.