Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened - Billy Graham

Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best - David O. Mckay

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up - Mark Twain

Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish - Jean de la Fontaine

There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth: 1.) not going all the way; and 2.) not starting - Buddha

'There is no secret to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure'  - Colin Powell

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it - Henry David Thoreau

Things may come to those who wait...but only the things left by those who hustle - Abraham Lincoln

As time passes we all  get better at blazing a trail through the thicket of advice - Margot Bennett

Be willing to launch in faith, with no guarantees of success. This is the mark of personal greatness - Brian Tracy

If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are fraud - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.
by Mark Twain

Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has
exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich
people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new
minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day.
Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how
much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire
tomorrow."

-- Denis Waitley

'Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines'

Robert H. Schuller

Ernst Kris and Ernst Gombrich, two of Riegl’s disciples: A work of art is inherently ambiguous and therefore that each person who sees it has a different interpretation. In essence, the beholder recapitulates in his or her own brain the artist’s creative steps.

The gap between your expectations and reality is your suffering - John St. Augustine

The only devils in this world are those running around inside our own hearts, and that is where all our battles should be fought by Gandhi

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world by Buddha

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions : 1. Why am I doing it. 2. What the results might be and 3. Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead. - Chanakya

Things don't change, only the way you look at them by Carlos Castaneda

A man, who realises the potential of his mind by means of introspection and contemplation, does not lack self-confidence. He has control over his mind and he is able to realise its full potential - Sama Veda

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself - Marl Twain

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge - Charles Darwin

Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest. Chanakya

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth _ Chanakya

Even as a single good tree with fragrant flowers can spread the fragrance in the entire forest, so also the entire family (or clan) shines by a child possessing good qualities. - Chanakya

Scholarship and kingship can never be equated. A king is respected in his own kingdom whereas a scholar is respected everywhere. _ Chanakya

A wise man has all qualities in him, a fool has only faults. Therefore a single wise person is better than a thousand fools.

Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right things by Peter Drucker

Man is so made that whenever anything fires his soul, impossibilities vannish - Jean de la Fontaine

When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
by Alice Hoffman

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it -  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You do so by falling over -Richard Branson

Be willing to launch in faith, with no guarantees of success. his is the mark of personal greatness - Brain Tracy

Things may come to those who wait.... but only the things left by those who hustle - Abraham Lincoln

“ Nature is a labyrinth in which the very haste you move with will make you lose your way. ” — Francis Bacon

There is only one sin. That is weakness.... The only saint is that soul that never weakens, faces everything, and determines to die game - Swami Vivekananda

The dog and the flea are not made equal by having the dog’s blood in common by Thomas M Easley

'Things do not happen. Things are made to happen'

John F. Kennedy

“ A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes it. ”

— Oscar Wilde

If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking - John Maynard Keynes

Love is not gazing at each other but looking together in the same direction - Antoine de Saint -Exupery

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it - Peter Medawar ( Only closed minds can do this - not open minds - Krishna)

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides - Henri Frederic Amiel

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe - Marilyn vos Savant

As time psses we all get better at blazing a trail through the thicket of advice - Margot Bennett

Success usually comes to thsoe who are too busy to be looking for it - Henry David Thoreau

The price of anything is the amount of life you excahnge for it - Henry David Thoreau

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts - Harold Macmillan

To have ideas is to gather flowers; to think is to weave them into garlands - Anne Sophie Awetchine

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves by Buddha

Courage is grace under pressure by Ernest Hemingway

Humility is the practical application of knowledge!

'Nothing ever becomes real till it is Experienced' - John Keats
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade - Tom Peters

Truth never damages a cause that is just - Gandhi

Failures are fingerposts on the road to achievement -Charles F. Ketterling

The years teach much which the days never knew - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off - Gloria Steinem

Sooner or later I am going to die, but I am not going to retire - Margaret Mead

It is easier to love humanity than to love your neighbour -Eric Hoffer

The best way to predict the future is to invent it - Alankay

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade - Tom Peters

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing- Socrates

Winners never quit and quitters never win - Vince Lombardi
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar - Helen Keller
Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then do it - Robert Heinlein

If superstition enters, the brain is gone - Swami Vivekananda

The secret of getting ahead is getting started'

Mark

You have enemies? Good. That means you have stood up for something, sometime in your life - Winston Churchill

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go - Oscar Wilde

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.
by Anne Bradstreet

“If you are not making mistakes, you’re not taking enough risks,” Debbie Millman counseled. “Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before,” Neil Gailman advised young creators.

Mistakes are not just opportunities for learning; they are, in an important sense, the only opportunity for learning or making something truly new. Before there can be learning, there must be learners. There are only two non-miraculous ways for learners to come into existence: they must either evolve or be designed and built by learners that evolved. Biological evolution proceeds by a grand, inexorable process of trial and error — and without the errors the trials wouldn’t accomplish anything.

Mark Twain once said, "The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter -- it's the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning."

Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns by Author Unknown              ( Sometimes it doesn't! There will be mean people who take help from you but still stab you in the back. My father himself was a victim of such inhuman acts!)

Giving what we have is not as difficult as giving what we are. This can happen only when in whatever we do, we pour the love of our hearts by Dada J P Vaswani

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper - Bertrand Russel

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; she requires the hand of time by Voltaire

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking - Voltaire

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it - Albert Einstein

I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions - Lilian Hellman

Sadness is a necessary and important part of life in order to correct our behaviors and face dangers, to not become complacent. We confront the thoughts supporting our adversities to get us what we reasonably want out of life.

"Unpleasant feelings are just as crucial as the enjoyable ones in helping you make sense of life's ups and downs. "

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great - Voltaire

At any moment, you have a choice, that either leads you closer to your spirit or further away from it by Thich Nhat Hanh

The reading of good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries - Rene Descartes

Defeat has its lessons as well as victory - Patrick Buchanan

Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for - Marian Wright Edelman

 'The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph'

Thomas Paine

Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls - Mother Teresa

Deliberation is the function of many; action is the function of one - Charles de Gaulle

“ Words are loaded pistols. ”

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity - Sogmund Freus

Anger: An acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is stored that to anything on which it is poured by Seneca

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and consciencious stupidity - Martin Luther King , Jr.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator and change has its enemies - Robert F. Kennedy

If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars - Rabindranath Tagore

If I'd known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself _ Eubie Blake

To look upon life as an evil and treat the world as delusion is sheer ingratitude - S. Rahdakrishnan

'You have to dream before your dreams can come true'

Abdul Kalam

On a long journey of human life, faith is the best of companions; it is the best refreshment on the journey; and it is the greatest property by Buddha

Truth is in the openness in which all ideas arise, but which isn't affected by the ideas by Bentinho Massaro

Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something - Indira Gandhi

Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope - Edith Wharton

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently - Henry Ford

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outwards together in the same direction - Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence - B.R. Ambedkar

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself - Swami Sivananda ( Not now when the competition is too high! Now you have to go get it if you don't want to lose it!)

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives - Annie Dillard

Education is the manifestation of perfection already in a man - Swami Vivekananda

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without - Buddha

It will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth - Werner Heisenberg

Winners never quit and and quitters never win!- 'Vince Lombardi'

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible - Tony Robbins

They say if you tell a lie 10 times it becomes a truth!!

Controversy equalises fools and wise men - and the fools know it! - Oliver Wendell Holms, American Jurist

If you plunder from West to East you are great like Alexander. If you do the same from East to West you are a barbarian like Genghis Khan - Javed Akhtar

It’s not what a man says, it’s what he does, and it’s not what he does, it’s what he is while he does, and it’s not what he is while he does, it’s what he is without doing, and it’s not what he is without doing, it’s what he is not, without doing by Thomas M Easley

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement - Henry Ford

Disappointment can come only to those who make Appointment with the future by Swami Chinmayananda

The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle by Swami Sivananda

That which you resist stays by David R. Hawkins

In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves by Buddha

I don’t believe in escapism, fantasy, I believe in the magic that is just there - Björk

Express yourself completely,/ Then keep quiet./ Be like the forces of nature;/ When it blows, there is only wind;/ When it rains, there is only rain;/ When the clouds pass, the sun shines through - Lao Tzu

That which tends to increase the divinity in you is virtue, and that which tends to increase brutality in you is vice by Swami Vivekananda

Seduction isn’t making someone do what they don’t want to do. It is enticing someone into doing  what they secretly want to do already.
by Waiter Ran

Quality is not an act, it is a habit!- 'Aristotle'

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
by Confucius

The will is not free — it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect but — there is something behind the will which is free.
by Swami Vivekanand

The only people who don’t have contradictions are those people who can’t see the contradictions they have by Thomas M Easle

Confucius said... "In the world there are many different roads but the destination is the same. There are a hundred deliberations but the result is one." by I Ching
"Happiness is your nature.'s Not wrong to have desires.
What is wrong is to look from the outside, because it is inside. "
Ramana M.
"Being free from the hypnotic conditioning is the biggest smile that you feel in your life." - -Mooji

Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth - Rumi

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
by Aldous Huxley

If you want to enjoy success, before you engineer situations, first of all you have to engineer yourself by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood by William Shenstone

Remember, `Even This Will Pass Away' - Swami Chinmayananda

Prepare to meet a man of wisdom by becoming a man of wisdom by Thomas M Easley

You can only let go of your attachments to the extent you trust life - Michael Jeffreys

To understand the importance of your uniqueness, realise that in the history of mankind until now, and ever hereafter, there can never be another you. So remain unique and be yourself.

Many people know so little what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves, either by Helen Keller

http://www.forsurequotes.com/

Everything we do, everything we are, rests on our personal power. If we have enough of it, one word is enough to change the course of our lives. If we don't, the most magnificent piece of wisdom can be revealed to us and that revelation won't make a damn bit of difference. Do you know that at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know you can use that eternity, if you so desire? Do you know that you can extend yourself forever in any direction and use it to take the totality of yourself forever in any direction? Do you know that one moment can be eternity? If you had enough personal power, my words alone would serve as a means to round up the totality of yourself and get to the crucial part of it out of the boundaries in which it is contained - Carlos Castaneda

Christ, to my knowledge, was not a Christian, but his teachings became Christianity. He achieved his link with God by direct communion with the ultimate, through meditation. The same thing for Buddha and Buddhism. Before Buddha there was no Buddhism. Buddha was not a Buddhist. Now I ask this question, "If Buddha could achieve God without being a Buddhist, and Christ claimed that he was the son of God without being a Christian, where is the need for any one of us to be in any of these religions?' So I would request all of you to think over this very carefully. - Anonymous

Discovery is seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought - Albert Von SzentGyorgi

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel - Horace Walpole

Let this become your key the next time anger comes, just watch it. Don't say, 'I am angry'. Say, 'Anger is there and I am watching it'. And see the difference! Suddenly you are out of the grip of anger. If you can say, 'I am just a watcher, I am not angry' then you are out of the grip - Osho

Enlightenment is the direct, abiding realization that YOU don't exist. Anything else, ain't it - Adyashanti

Love and fault-finding never go together. The more you love, the less you judge by Dada J P Vaswani

Fear is the key which is locking up our progress in life. The purer we become in our mind and heart, the more confidence and courage we get to progress ahead.
by Shri Shri Nimishananda

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly by Buddha

Discovery is seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought - Albert Von Szentgyorgi

This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel - Horace Walpole

Talking isn't doing. It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds - William Shakespeare

Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present - Roger Babson

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool - Stephen King

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education - Albert Einstein

It is never too late to become what you might have been - George Eliot

You will never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of human race - G. Bernard

Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched - Guy De Maupassant

It s better to be late, than to arrive ugly - Author unknown

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later - Og Mandino

Even if you fall on your face, you are still moving forward - Victor Kiam

Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die - Roger Babson

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price - Benjamin Franklin

None of us is as smart as all of us - Ken Blanchard

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom - Isaac Asimov

You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice - Bob Marley

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance - Will Durant

The road up and the road down are one and the same! - Heraclitus

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail - Benjamin Franklin

Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory - Abraham Lincoln

You can get all A's and still flunk life - Walker Percy

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously - Hubert H. Humphrey

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination - John Dewey

No real change in history has ever been achieved by discussion - Subhas Chandra Bose

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be servant of society - B. R. Ambedkar

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul - Mark Twain

Science has made us Gods even before  we are worthy of being men - Jean Rostand

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolised - Albert Einstein

It is always wise to look ahead , but difficult to look further than you can see - Winston Churchill

If you can think about, it's not the truth - Robert Adams

"Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly–they'll go through anything," wrote Aldous Huxley in a "Brave New World."

“ The future is not in the hands of fate but in ours. ” — Jules Jusserand

Desire, ignorance, and inequality—this is the trinity of bondage by Swami Vivekananda

Every failure makes me better.

“A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.”

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present.
by B Olatunji

My life is a succession of events, just like yours. Only I am detached and see the passing show as a passing show, while you stick to things and move along with them by Sri Nisargadatta

Letting go of fear, attachment, grief and anger is the sannyasin’s renunciation. He savours only the taste of his oneness with the ultimate reality by Nirvana Upanishad

You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to suffer by Byron Katie

Respect for teachers cannot be ordered; it must be earned - S Radhakrishnan

Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door - Kyle Chandler
Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned - Peter Marshall

You can only let go of your attachments to the extent you trust life by Michael Jeffreys
Don't limit a child to your own learning. For he was born in another time - Rabidranath Tagore

“ To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life. ” — Baruch Spinoza

The words “We create our own reality” are the most profound words of wisdom in the universe.

When we know about something, it is mere information…
When we personally experience it, it becomes knowledge…
And finally, when we understand the essence and practice it in our lives, it becomes wisdom!

Your job is not what you do but it is the goal you pursue!

American science fiction writer Philip K. Dick once wrote, "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, it doesn't go away." And as the Chinese Zen master Huang Po wrote, "The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see."

“ One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master. ” - Joseph Addison

Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world - Anonymous

Being defeated is only a temporary condition; giving up is what makes it permanent.- Marilyn vos Savant, Author and Advice Columnist

I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened by old ones. - John Cage

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.  - Unknown

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them. - Dr. Denis Waitley ( And I chose the second one - Krishna )

Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. - Sir Winston Churchill

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true - Vivekananda

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying - Martin Luther

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is nature's delight - Marcus Aurelius

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a moulder of consensus - Martin Luther King , Jr.

It is our dreams that energize us more than our abilities - David Shi

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see - Arthur Schopenhauer

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes _ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wherever there is light, there is shadow; wherever there is length, there is shortness; wherever there is white, there is black. Just like these, as the self-nature of things can not exist alone, they are called non-substantial - Buddha

Don't let your will roar when your power only whispers - Thomas Fuller

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him - Aldous Huxley

'Through great pain comes great art.'

Makers see a need but rather than asking somebody else to address it, they take matters into their own hands and fix things themselves.

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
by Anatole France

If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character by Swami Sivananda

You can never be overdressed or overeducated - Oscar Wilde

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you -   Carl Sandburg

 If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance by George Bernard Shaw

You and I are the same. What I have done is surely possible for all. You are the Self now and can never be anything else. Throw your worries to the wind, turn within and find Peace by Ramana Maharishi

To me the very essence of education is concentration of the mind, not the collecting of facts by Swami Vivekananda

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality —Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If at First You Don't Succeed
"I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." -Michael Jordan.

In Chinese business culture, humility is virtue - Stefan H Verstappen

The purpose of education is o replace an empty mind with an open one  - Malcolm Forbes

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more - William Cowper

"The hypocrites look for faults in people. The believers look for excuses for people." - Imam Ghazzali

Let me rejoice in the successes of others even as I would in my own by Dada J P Vaswani

Letting go of fear, attachment, grief and anger is the sannyasin’s renunciation. He savours only the taste of his oneness with the ultimate reality by Nirvana Upanishad

It does not matter how old you are. It does not matter whether you have wasted opportunities. It does not matter where you went to school, or if you went to school. It does not matter what anyone else thinks. It only matters what you think. If you trust your gut and let it be known to yourself that the spark of greatness is within you, that is the foundation you need to create career success on your terms.

When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing, then the supreme state will come to you uninvited and unexpected by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others by Buddha

Everything in your life is there as a vehicle for your transformation. Use it - Ram Dass

God would prefer a good natured atheist to a corrupt believer!

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life, is when men are afraid of the Light - Plato

Sometimes people get the mistaken notion that spirituality is a separate department of life, the penthouse of existence. But rightly understood, it is a vital awareness that pervades all realms of our being - David Steindl-Rast

The only thing better than a happy Heart is a clear mind to keep it pumping. Cleanse yourself from within and you’re bound to win - Stabley Victor Paskavich

Heaven on Earth is a spiritual choice you must make, not a place you must find - Wayne Dye

Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging - Joseph Campbell

Don't compromise yourself - you are all you have.
Whenever you find whole world against you just turn around and lead the world.
To understand the importance of your uniqueness, realise that in the history of mankind until now, and ever hereafter, there can never be another you. So remain unique and be yourself.
A good life is the one inspired and guided by knowledge.
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see! - Arhtur Schopenhauer

Common sense is genius dresses in its working clothes _ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not led by others, awaken your own mind, amass your own experiences, and decide for yourself your own path.
In the matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Some succeed because they are destined. Some succeed because they are determined.
You never know how strong you are, until being strong is your only choice .You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costumes of failure. - Zig Zigler

Atheism  shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree (why?!) - Blaise Pascal

It is our dreams that energize us more than our abilities - David Shi

If you don't like how things are, change it! You are not a tree - Jim Rohn

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them - Bruce Lee

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough - Meister Eckhart

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes - Charles Spurgeon

You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get - Michael Phelps

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision - Hellen Keller

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them - George Orwell

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far - Theodore Roosevelt

Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror _ Rabindranath Tagore

Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof Khalil Gibran

If you are going through hell, keep going - Winston Churchill

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet - Victor Hugo

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth - Thomas Huxley

Satisfaction of ones' curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life - Linus Pauling

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them - Albert Einstein

Even the enlightened person... is never more than his own limited ego - Carl Jung

Faith must be enforced by reason.. when faith becomes blind it dies - Gandhi

If decision making process is flawed and dysfunctional, decisions will go awry. - Carly Fiorina

If everything seems like it is under control, you are not going fast enough - Mario Andretti

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars - Oscar Wilde

Don't compromise yourself- you are all you have _ John Grisham

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself - Andre Breton

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understanding and our hearts

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my God - Napoleon Bonaparte

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head - Arthur Schopenhauer

The mind is a powerful medium and you an achieve anything you wnat as long as you are able to programme your thought process in a positive manner

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal. Not to people or things - Albert Einstein

Several excuses are always less convincing than one - Aldous Huxley

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams - John Barrymore

Life is like playing a violin solo in public and leaning the instrument as one goes on - Samuel Butler

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits the bottom - George S Patton

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear - Mark Twain

If we cannot celebrate death as we celebrate birth, we do not know life by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success Napoleon Hill

Try happiness involves the full use of ones's power and talents _ John W. Gardner

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. -Margaret Atwood, novelist and poet

When we try to pick anything out by itself, we find it hitched to every thing else in the universe - John Muir

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience - John Locke

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom - James Huneker

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail - Benjamin Franklin

Envisioning the end is enough to put the means in motion - Dorothea Brande

"Sapiosexual" A person who is sexually atracted to intellignet people

A man can't retire his experience -Bernard M Baruch
Never forget that you are one of a kind. Neverforget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place - R. Buckminster Fuller
That some achieve great success is proof to all that others can achieve it as well - Abraham Lincoln
Don't give up on your dreams or your dreams will give up on you - John Wooden
Lawless are they that make their wills their law - William Shakespeare

It is not the length but the strength of one's life that matters - Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

Being alive is the greatest phenomenon, not just on this planet, but in the whole cosmos - Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
The toughest thing about success is that you have got to keep on being a success - Irving Berlin
When we try to pick anything out by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe - John Muir

There is no point in making yourself believe everything is going to be all right. But if you do the right things, you can leave this world a better place by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

Quotes by Helen Keller:
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.
All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.
It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

( Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. The story of how Keller's teacher, Anne Sullivan, broke through the isolation imposed by a near complete lack of language, allowing the girl to blossom as she learned to communicate, has become widely known through the dramatic depictions of the play and film The Miracle Worker. She is an inspiration to everybody who feels that life has many troubles and problems. She overcome something that is even hard to imagine and did wonders. )

To stand up and fight doesn’t take intelligence. To understand and give in takes a lot more - Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

Full human capabilities will find expression not in competition, but only in absolute relaxation - Sadhguru Jaggi
Vasudev

When you are committed, the whole world is behind you, supporting you in fulfilling your dream by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

"Change and risk-taking are normal aspects of the creative process. They are the lubricants that keep the wheels in motion. A creative act is not necessarily something that has never been done; it is something you have never done."
-- Nita Leland in The Creative Artis

The spiritual process is not a therapy – it is a device to liberate by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

When there is no fear of suffering in you, you will explore life in its full possibility - Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

A situation becomes stressful only when you compulsively react to it by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

Oscar Wilde : Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Yoga means union. To be in a state of yoga means to be complete within yourself - Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

One simple thing that can transform a human being is emotion. Your emotion can drag you into the gutter or it can take you to the highest peak of consciousness - Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

Maggie Price : "Once you begin seeing with the eye of an artist, you never see the world the same way again."

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment." Jim Rohn

Optimists hallucinate; pessimists get depressed. Both will not get anywhere. You must be willing to see everything the way it is - Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

Love is not an instrument of convenience. Love is a process of self-annihilation - Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

I am not interested in you seeking God. I am interested in you becoming godlike by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

Spirituality is neither a psychological nor a social process – it is 100% existential by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

Waiting is not about time – it is a certain quality. You can wait upon someone or something only when you do not think too much of yourself - Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

Don’t be excessively concerned about health – that itself is sickness by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

Compassion is the most liberating of emotions by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

'Be who you are and be that well'

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending….”

You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading your last one.

The highest force in existence is consciousness, and you are that by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

To progress on the path, you should only be concerned about where you go, not where you came from by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

If you want to find out the purpose of life, you need to look beyond the limitations of body and mind by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

For any human being to be successful, Grace is needed. No matter how much intelligence, skill, and competence you have, you still will not be successful if you do not know how to receive Grace by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

Once you know maya, it runs away, it can no more influence you by Ramakrishna Paramahamsa

Mr. John Bender: "The world is an imperfect place."

The way things really are depends on what concepts you buy into by Scott Kiloby

Life is too short to spend time with people who suck the happiness out of you. If someone wants you in their life, they’ll make room for you. You shouldn’t have to fight for a spot. Never, ever insist yourself to someone who continuously overlooks your worth. And remember, it’s not the people that stand by your side when you’re at your best, but the ones who stand beside you when you’re at your worst that are your true friends.

One of the greatest challenges in life is being yourself in a world that’s trying to make you like everyone else. Someone will always be prettier, someone will always be smarter, someone will always be younger, but they will never be you. Don’t change so people will like you. Be yourself and the right people will love the real you.

Doing something and getting it wrong is at least ten times more productive than doing nothing. Every success has a trail of failures behind it, and every failure is leading towards success. You end up regretting the things you did NOT do far more than the things you did.

We may love the wrong person and cry about the wrong things, but no matter how things go wrong, one thing is for sure, mistakes help us find the person and things that are right for us. We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future. Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for a moment that is yet to come.

If you’re not happy with who you are on the inside, you won’t be happy in a long-term relationship with anyone else either. You have to create stability in your own life first before you can share it with someone else.
Don’t think too much or you’ll create a problem that wasn’t even there in the first place. Evaluate situations and take decisive action. You cannot change what you refuse to confront. Making progress involves risk. Period! You can’t make it to second base with your foot on first.

Nobody ever feels 100% ready when an opportunity arises. Because most great opportunities in life force us to grow beyond our comfort zones, which means we won’t feel totally comfortable at first. Stop thinking you are not ready.

Relationships must be chosen wisely. It’s better to be alone than to be in bad company. There’s no need to rush. If something is meant to be, it will happen – in the right time, with the right person, and for the best reason. Fall in love when you’re ready, not when you’re lonely. Stop getting involved in relationships for the wrong reasons.

In life you’ll realize that there is a purpose for everyone you meet. Some will test you, some will use you and some will teach you. But most importantly, some will bring out the best in you.

Don’t worry about what others doing better than you. Concentrate on beating your own records every day. Success is a battle between YOU and YOURSELF only.

Jealousy is the art of counting someone else’s blessings instead of your own. Ask yourself this: “What’s something I have that everyone wants?” Stop being jealous.

Stop getting involved in relationships for the wrong reasons

Don’t live your life with hate in your heart. You will end up hurting yourself more than the people you hate. Forgiveness is not saying, “What you did to me is okay.” It is saying, “I’m not going to let what you did to me ruin my happiness forever.” Forgiveness is the answer… let go, find peace, liberate yourself! And remember, forgiveness is not just for other people, it’s for you too. If you must, forgive yourself, move on and try to do better next time.

Refuse to lower your standards to accommodate those who refuse to raise theirs.

Stop letting others bring you down to their leve

The time to take a deep breath is when you don’t have time for it. If you keep doing what you’re doing, you’ll keep getting what you’re getting. Sometimes you need to distance yourself to see things clearly.
Enjoy the little things, because one day you may look back and discover they were the big things. The best portion of your life will be the small, nameless moments you spend smiling with someone who matters to you.
The real world doesn’t reward perfectionists; it rewards people who get things done.
Stop trying to make things perfect
Life is not easy, especially when you plan on achieving something worthwhile. Don’t take the easy way out. Do something extraordinary.
Stop following the path of least resistance
It’s okay to fall apart for a little while. You don’t always have to pretend to be strong, and there is no need to constantly prove that everything is going well. You shouldn’t be concerned with what other people are thinking either – cry if you need to – it’s healthy to shed your tears. The sooner you do, the sooner you will be able to smile again.
Stop acting like everything is fine if it isn’t
The extent to which you can achieve your dreams depends on the extent to which you take responsibility for your life. When you blame others for what you’re going through, you deny responsibility – you give others power over that part of your life.
Stop blaming others for your troubles
Stop trying to be everything to everyone
Doing so is impossible, and trying will only burn you out. But making one person smile CAN change the world. Maybe not the whole world, but their world. So narrow your focus.

Worry will not strip tomorrow of its burdens, it will strip today of its joy. One way to check if something is worth mulling over is to ask yourself this question: “Will this matter in one year’s time? Three years? Five years?” If not, then it’s not worth worrying about.

Stop worrying so much

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment." Jim Rohn

Stop focusing on what you don’t want to happen
Focus on what you do want to happen. Positive thinking is at the forefront of every great success story. If you awake every morning with the thought that something wonderful will happen in your life today, and you pay close attention, you’ll often find that you’re right.
No matter how good or bad you have it, wake up each day thankful for your life. Someone somewhere else is desperately fighting for theirs. Instead of thinking about what you’re missing, try thinking about what you have that others are missing.
Stop being ungrateful

The source of creation is in every atom, in every creature, in every cell of your body. If you can access it, your life will be magical by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

Believing something that is not in your experience means losing touch with reality by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

Life knows no failure. Failure exists only for those who are always comparing themselves with others by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

Never try to destroy the enemy. Destroy the enmity by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

The moment you transcend the limitations of your logical mind, there is no such thing as time and space by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

The significance of a teacher is not to just rattle off information, but to inspire and allow each student to blossom by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

Sharpness of the intellect is not about outsmarting others, but about seeing life just the way it is - Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

People call books holy, but they are yet to realize that life is holy - Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

It is not that belief is blind. It is just that belief blinds people by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

Suffering is not necessarily proportional to one’s material deprivation. People who have everything may suffer more deeply than those who have nothing - Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

In reality, there is only now. If you know how to handle this moment, you know how to handle eternity - Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

Using a spiritual process as power over others is a sure way for self-destruction by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

Whatever you do willingly, you enjoy. Whatever you do unwillingly, you suffer by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

If you know how to touch the core of a human being, everyone is willing to do the best for you by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

Turning spiritual means taking your destiny into your hands by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

All beliefs will crash somewhere. Only reality will sustain itself by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

Education should not be about molding children the way you want them, but about supporting their natural longing to know by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

If your goal is Ultimate Liberation, every breath, every step, every beat of your heart should become conscious by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

Only a person who is willing to die can live totally by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

Peace of mind is your richest treasure. See that you do nothing which may rob you of your peace of mind. Regulate your life in such a way that it adds to your inner calm and does not take away your peace by Dada J P Vaswani

Ready to meet your soul mate? It’s you!
There is no wrong in portraying entrepreneurship as marriage with your enterprise. Just like in the institution of marriage, the startup venture demands you to confront your most feared situations, insecurities, excuses, justifications and limitations. In the course of time you will start to accept yourself despite of your weaknesses and shortcomings making you fall in love with yourself.

Do the work

The main challenge that chains down every wanna be entrepreneur is not the difficulty of the project, or the state of the marketplace, or the emptiness of bank account but the resistance to start. There can be thousands of excuses physical, mental, emotional, and psychological that we tell to ourselves from not being pulled out from the comfortable state of mind what we are in.

A concept never is conscious or alive; it doesn't know it is there. Only Consciousness Itself is conscious to know anything - Peter Francis Dziuban

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea by Buddha

One day a farmer’s donkey fell down into a well.

The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally he decided the animal was old and the well needed to be covered anyway, it just wasn’t worth it to retrieve the donkey. He invited all his neighbors to come over and help him.

They all grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well. At first, the donkey realized what was happening and cried horribly. Then, to everyone’s amazement, he quieted down. A few shovel loads later, the farmer finally looked down the well and was astonished at what he saw.

With every shovel of dirt that hit his back, the donkey was doing something amazing. He would shake it off and take a step up. As the farmer’s neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he would shake it off and take a step up. Pretty soon, everyone was amazed as the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and trotted off!Life is going to shovel dirt on you, all kinds of dirt.

The trick to getting out of the well is to shake it off and take a step up. Each of our troubles is a stepping stone. We can get out of the deepest wells just by not stopping, never giving up! Shake it off and take a step up!

Don't look back ,forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience then alone can great deeds be accomplished by Swami Vivekananda

“Artists, unlike scientists, are not attempting to model the world. They are trying to engage the viewer with the wonder of it. If you attempt to marry and equate art with science, then you fail. If you allow what is not similar about art and science, and their different methods and processes to co-exist and thrive, then a real art/science collaboration and aesthetic will emerge. But at the end of the day, both art and science are united by one logic and one impulse – both are attempts to understand what it is to be human and the world around us.”

   - Artist: Keith Tyson

“Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.”

― Leonardo da Vinci