Inspirational Quotes
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.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
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.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
He who stops being better stops being good.
Never say more than is necessary.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.
Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
Fortune favors the brave.
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.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
My life is my message.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
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.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
You can do what you want to do.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
Make the second effort your second nature.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.