Inspirational and Motivational Life Quotes

It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else's life with perfection.

Bhagavad-Gita

No one who does good work will ever come to a bad end, either here or in the world to come.

Bhagavad-Gita

Neither in this world nor elsewhere is there any happiness in store for him who always doubts.

Bhagavad-Gita

Not by refraining from action does man attain freedom from action. Not by mere renunciation does he attain supreme perfection.

Bhagavad-Gita

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

Buddha

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

Buddha

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done

Buddha

A jug fills drop by drop.

Buddha

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

Buddha

Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living.

Buddha

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

Buddha

There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path.

Buddha

Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Buddha

Pain is certain, suffering is optional.

Buddha

Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.

Buddha

A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.

Buddha

Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind.

Buddha

There isn?t enough darkness in all the world to snuff out the light of one little candle.

Buddha

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.

Buddha

If you are facing in the right direction, all you need to do is keep on walking.

Buddha

Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.

Albert Einstein

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Albert Einstein

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

Albert Einstein

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Albert Einstein

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.

Albert Einstein

Try not to become just a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

It?s not that I?m so smart; it?s just that I stay with problems longer.

Albert Einstein

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.

Albert Einstein

The person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Albert Einstein

Example isn?t another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.

Albert Einstein

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what then, is an empty desk? The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.

Albert Einstein

Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?

Albert Einstein

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

Albert Einstein

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

Albert Einstein

A ship is always safe at the shore - but that is NOT what it is built for.

Albert Einstein

Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.

Albert Einstein

Never lose a holy curiosity.

Albert Einstein

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.

Albert Einstein

Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.

Albert Einstein

Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck.

Abdul Kalam

To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.

Osho

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

Osho

You feel good, you feel bad, and these feelings are bubbling from your own unconsciousness, from your own past. Nobody is responsible except you. Nobody can make you angry, and nobody can make you happy.

Osho

Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.

Osho

I live my life based on 2 principles.
One, I live as if today was my last day on earth.
Two, I live today as if I am going to live forever.

Osho

It is a strange thing ,that every child is born with a closed hand , and every body dies with an open hand !

Osho

To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.

Osho

The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.

Osho

When I say be creative I don't mean that you should all go and become great painters and great poets. I simply mean let your life be a painting, let your life be a poem.

Osho

Respect life, revere life, there is nothing more holy than life,nothing more divine than life.

Osho

I love this world because it is imperfect. It is imperfect, and that?s why it is growing; if it was perfect it would have been dead.

Osho

It does not matter if you are a rose or a lotus or a marigold. What matters is that you are flowering.

Osho

Respect your uniqueness, and drop comparison. Relax into your being.

Osho

A serious person can never be innocent, and one who is innocent can never be serious.

Osho

Man is born only as a potential. He can become a thorn for himself and for others, he can also become a flower for himself and for others.

Osho

Hell is our creation, and we create hell by trying to do the impossible. Heaven is our nature, it is our spontaneity. It is where we always are.

Osho

When you are different the whole world is different. It is not a question of creating a different world. It is only a ques of creating a different you.

Osho

Don?t be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing the chapters that you have read; there is no need to go back again and again.

Osho

Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, education, your culture.

Osho

You can go on changing the outer for lives and you will never be satisfied. Unless the inner changes, the outer can never be perfect.

Osho

A comfortable, convenient life is not a real life ? the more comfortable, the less alive. The most comfortable life is in the grave.

Osho

If whatsoever you have been living can be conveyed by words, that means you have not lived at all.

Osho

The only thing that matters in life, is your own opinion about yourself.

Osho

Don?t be angry at life. It is not life that is frustrating you, it is you who are not listening to life.

Osho

Life is not logic, life is not philosophy. Life is a dance, a song, a celebration! It is more like love and less like logic.

Osho

Life in itself is so beautiful that to ask the question of the meaning of life is simply nonsense.

Osho

Whatever you are doing, don?t let past move your mind;don?t let future disturb you. Because the past is no more, and the future is not yet.

Osho

If you clean the floor with love, you have done an invisible painting. Live each moment in such delight that it gives you something inner.

Osho

You will come closer and closer to perfection, but you will never be perfect. Perfection is not the way of existence. Growth is the way.

Osho

Whatsoever you hide goes on growing, and whatsoever you expose, if it is wrong it disappears, evaporates in the sun, and if it is right it is nourished.

Osho

Instead of pleasing, learn the art of happiness.

Osho

Happiness is an art that one has to learn. It has nothing to do with your doing or not doing.

Osho

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Albert Einstein

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.

John Quincy Adams

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

Confucius

The unhappiest & unsuccessful people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think.

C. JoyBell

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.

Abraham Linclon

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived stop thinking and go in.

Napoleon Bonaparte

You just can?t beat the person who never gives up.

Babe Ruth

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty

Winston Churchill

To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will

Sugar Ray Robinson

I have failed over and over again ?that is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

Arthur C. Clarke

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.

Albert Einstein

Don't limit your challenges; challenge your limits.

Anon.

People become successful the minute they decide to.

Harvey Mackay

Your ideas are like diamonds.. .without the refining process, they are just a dirty rock, but by cutting away the impurities, they become priceless.

Paul Kearly

I have tried 99 times and have failed, but on the 100th time came success.

Albert Einstein

The size of your success depends on the depth of your desire.

Anon.

He who dares, wins.

Winston Churchill

The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.

Alexander Graham Bell

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.

Beverly Sills

I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.

Michael Jordan

The starting Doint of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

Napoleon Hill

Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.

Jimmy Valvano

Don't wish for it...Work for it!

Anon

He who conquers others is strong. He who conquers himself is mighty.

Lao Tzu

Think BIG! You are going to be thinking anyway, so think BIG!

Donald Trump

People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves, they have the first secret of success.

Norman Vincent Peale

The day I stop giving is the day I stop receiving. The day I stop learning is the day I stop growing.

Anon.

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take

Wayne Gretzky

Be courageous! Have faith! Go forward.

Thomas A. Edison

I am a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work the more luck I have.

Thomas Jefferson

Do not settle for less than an extraordinary life.

Anon.

You've got to get up every morning with determination if you're going to go to bed with satisfaction.

George Horace Lorimer

If you have goals and procrastination you have nothing. If you have goals and you take action, you will have anything you want.

Thomas J. Vilord

Remember, if you want a different result, do something different.

Anon.

Successful people in this world are those who get up and look for circumstances they want. If you can't find them, then make them.

George Bernard Shaw

Every man is an impossibility until he is born.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Albert Einstein

People are not lazy; they just have impotent goals, that is, goals that do not inspire them.

Anthony Robbins

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in achieving it.

Moliere

If you are not grateful than you are great fool.

Unknown

It's never too late to take U turn when you notice travelling in wrong direction.

Unknown

ABCD of Life. A - Aim, B - Behavior, C - Character, D - Discipline.

Unknown

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Harvey Mackay

Herbert Swope

James Allen

A.A. Milne

Abdul Kalam

Abraham Linclon

Abraham Lincoln

Albert Einstein

Albert Schweitzer

Alexander Graham Bell

Alexis Carrel

Alice Walker

Amelia Earhart

Ana?s Nin

Anon

Anon.

Anthony de Mello

Anthony J. D'Angelo

Anthony Robbins

Antoine de Saint-Exup?ry

Arthur C. Clarke

Babe Ruth

Belva Davis

Ben Sweetland

Beverly Sills

Bhagavad-Gita

Bill Cosby

Brian Schweitzer

Brian Tracy

Buddha

C. JoyBell

C.S. Lewis

Charles O. Finley

Charlie Hedges

Chinese proverb

Chris Reeve

Cloud of Unknowing

Confucius

Conrad Hilton

Donald Trump

Edgar Mitchell

Eido Tai Shimano Roshi

Eleanor Roosevelt

Elias A. Ford

Elizabeth K?bler-Ross

Emmanuel

Eric Hoffer

Eugene Ionesco

Frank C. Laubach

Franz Kafka

G.K. Chesterton

George Bernard Shaw

George Horace Lorimer

George Meredith

George Patton

Gerald Heard

Gerald Jampolsky

Henri Nouwen

Henry David Thoreau

Henry Miller

Henry Sloane Coffin

Henry Ward

Herman Hesse

J. Krishnamurti

Jack Kornfield

Jacquelyn Small

Jakob B?hme

Jawaharlal Nehru

Jesus

Jim Rohn

Jimmy Valvano

Joanna Macy

John Bunyan

John Lennon

John Muir

John Quincy Adams

John Richard Moreland

Joy Page

Krishan Chopra

Kristen Zambucka

Langston Hughes

Lao Tzu

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandi

Marcia Wieder

Marcus Aurelius

Marilyn Monroe

Mark Twain

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Mary Anne Radmacher

Master Sengstan

Matthew Fox

Maya Angelou

Meister Eckhart

Michael Jordan

Michelangelo

Moliere

Morihei Ueshiba

Mother Teresa

Muhammad Ali

Napolean Hill

Napoleon Bonaparte

Napoleon Hill

Norman Vincent Peale

Oprah Winfrey

Oscar Wilde

Osho

Paul Kearly

Paul Rezendes

Peace Pilgrim

Pete Zafra

Peter Matthiessen

Philip James Bailey

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Richard Monckton Milnes

Rick Fields

Rumi

Saint Francis de Sales

Saint John Climacus

Saint? Theresa

Socrates

Steven Spielberg

Sugar Ray Robinson

Sven Goran Eriksson

Swami Sivananda

Swami Vivekanada

Swami Vivekananda

Teilhard de Chardin

The Bible

Theodore Roosevelt

Thich Nhat Hanh

Thomas A. Edison

Thomas Edison

Thomas J. Vilord

Thomas Jefferson

Unknown

Unknown

Vincent van Gogh

Walt Disney

Walt Whitman

Wayne Gretzky

William Blake

William Penn

Winston Churchill

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