Inspirational Quotes
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Love sees roses without thorns.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Do or do not, there is no try.
Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Never spend your money before you have it.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
May you live all the days of your life.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
The energy, the faith, the devotion which we bring to this endeavor will light our country and all who serve it, and the glow from that fire can truly light the world.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
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.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
If you would create something, you must be something.
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.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
In love beggar and king are equal.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.