Monday, May 5, 2014

Inspirational quotes Part 5

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1) Don`t judge me tomorrow by the way im acting today.

2) Education is the most powerful weapon, you can use to change the world.

3) In 50 years, people won't remember the clothes you wore, they'll remember how you made them feel. Think before you speak.

4) Its good to have MONEY and the things that money can buy, as long as you make sure you don't lose the things money can't buy.

5) Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.



6) There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

7) If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

8) Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.

9) What's done can't be undone.

10) Criticize the act, not the person.

11) Those who see the invisible can do the impossible.

12) Learned we may be with another man's learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

13) Be frank and explicit. That is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

14) Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.

15) The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

16) The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

17) In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first

18) Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more

19) It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.

20) Nothing is as easy as it looks.

21) Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

22) No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

23) Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.

24) Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.

25) No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

26) We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid

27) It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

28) I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.

29) Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.

30) You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.

31) If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.

32) He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to.

33) True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.

34) Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy

35) A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

36) If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

37) The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

38) Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.

39) To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

40) It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.

41) Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

42) 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.

43) All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

44) A man is literally what he thinks.

45) Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

46) If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

47) Beer: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.

48) Judge not unless you judge yourself.

49) There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

50) The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

51) Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens

52) Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

53) The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there…and still on your feet.

54) If you have no problems, then you have no clue to what is going.

55) Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

56) To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties – of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence

57) Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

58) Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

59) None but ourselves can free our minds.

60) We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

61) Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

62) I have had good experience and trial of this world…I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.

63) If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

64) So whenever a Western seeker reaches to an understanding that ego is the problem, he can easily dissolve it, more easily than any Eastern seeker.

65) I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

66) Doubt is the origin of wisdom

67) Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

68) Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

69) A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

70) In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

71) The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

72) You always admire what you really don't understand.

73) Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.

74) Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

75) And no one will listen to us until we listen to ourselves.

76) Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

77) Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.

78) Above all be of single aim; have a legitimate and useful purpose, and devote yourself unreservedly to it.

79) One must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day has been.

80) Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

81) Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

82) Kind words don't cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

83) There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

84) Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

85) Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.

86) When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are

87) Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision,to the releasing of a trigger.

88) Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.

89) Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.

90) It is tact that is golden, not silence.

91) All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

92) Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

93) Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength

94) We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

95) A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

96) I have no desire to make windows into mens souls

97) He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.

98) Meditation will bring you sensitivity, a great sense of belonging to the world. It is our world – the stars are ours, and we are not foreigners here. We are part of it, we are the heart of it.

99) The path to success is to take massive, determined action.

100) Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.

101) Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

102) Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

103) A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

104) It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

105) The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

106) You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

107) It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

108) Time wounds all heels.

109) We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

110) Think globally, act locally.

111) The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little

112) Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

113) Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

114) The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.

115) Boredom is the root of all evil – the despairing refusal to be oneself.

116) There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

117) In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

118) Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

119) You don't become what you want, you become what you believe

120) Wrong life cannot be lived rightly.

121) We never see ourselves as others see us.

122) Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

123) Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

124) Desire, ignorance, and inequalityĆ¢€”this is the trinity of bondage.

125) Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree; but it preserves it

126) One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

127) What you're thinking is what you're becoming.

128) Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

129) I know I am but mortal and so therewhilst prepare myself for death, whensoever it shall please God to send it.

130) My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.

131) An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.

132) It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

133) In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

134) You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

135) A precedent embalms a principle.

136) It is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance.

137) The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.

138) Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

139) Don't criticize what you can't understand.

140) Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

141) Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.

142) The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

143) Every aquarium will eventually leak.

144) Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

145) If you do not know the laws of right conduct, you cannot form your character.

146) You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

147) By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.

148) He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

149) One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

150) When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.

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