Inspirational Quotes
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.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
High expectations are the key to everything.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
Never say die.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
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.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
Our intentions create our reality.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Be who you are in every situation.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
Do what you love and the money will follow
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
Never stop dreaming.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
Change comes from within.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
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 don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
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.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.