Inspiring Quotes

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.

I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can only rest for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not ended.

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives: Be kind anyway. If you are successful you will win some false friends and true enemies: Succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank people will try to cheat you: Be honest anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight: Build anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous of you: Be happy anyway. The good you do today, will often be forgotten by tomorrow: Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough: Give your best anyway.

If we want to find safe alternatives to obstetrics, we must rediscover midwifery. To rediscover midwifery is the same as giving back childbirth to women. And imagine the future if surgical teams were at the service of the midwives and the women instead of controlling them.

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.

No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

Don't see others doing better than you, beat your own records everyday, because success is a fight between you and yourself.

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.

For every obstacle there is a solution. Persistence is the key. The greatest mistake is giving up!

Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.

Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.

The Bible was not given for our information but for our transformation.

Every great dream begins with a dreamer.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.

Our nation is like a tree of which the original trunk is swarajya and the branches are swadeshi and boycott.

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.

We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world.

You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.

Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts ... good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don't hurt. They're not painful. That's not just with somebody you want to marry, but it's with the friends that you choose. It's with the people you surround yourselves with.

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Nobody's free until everybody's free.

We've got a responsibility to live up to the legacy of those who came before us by doing all that we can to help those who come after us.

The shots that hit me are the last nails to the coffin of british rule in India.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

Do you know what it's like going through life being better than everybody? It's hard.

Every person that you meet knows something you don't; learn from them.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Everybody wants happiness, and nobody wants pain, but you can't have a rainbow without a little rain.

Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation.

If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old