Inspirational Quotes
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
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 ?
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
The past does not equal the future.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
Ability is sexless.
Only the educated are free.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcomed invaluable, but it does not free him from responsibility.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
Each action can be the one on which all depends , what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment'.
Let thy words be few.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Above all to thine own self be true.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
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?
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Better late than never.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
Be Here Now.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
Truth fears no questions.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.