Quotes on Inspirational

Know that success and inner peace are your birthright, that you are a child of God and as such that you're entitled to a life filled with joy, love and happiness.

What is well rooted cannot be pulled up. What is firmly grasped will not slip loose. It will be honoured from generation to generation.

The ten thousand things flourish and then each returns to the root from which it came. Returning to the root is stillness. Through stillness each fulfils its destiny.

The True Person governs by emptying the heart of desire and filling the belly with food, weakening ambitions and strengthening bones.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

The world has also learned that economic growth, by itself, cannot close the gap between rich and poor.

As free human beings we can use our unique intelligence to try to understand ourselves and our world. But if we are prevented from using our creative potential, we are deprived of one of the basic characteristics of a human being.

When selflessness is seen in objects, the seed of cyclic existence is destroyed.

Let no youth have any anxiety about the upshot of his education, whatever the line of it may be. If he keep faithfully busy each hour of the working-day, he may safely leave the result to itself. He can with perfect certainty count on waking up some fine morning to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation.

A republican government in a hundred points is weaker than an autocratic government; but in this one point it is the strongest that ever existed — it has educated a race of men that are men.

What you leave in your children, is more important than what you leave to them

Improve relationships with others by assuming that they can hear everything you say about them

I've always said that the better off you are, the more responsibility you have for helping others

Encourage one another. Many times a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has kept people on their feet.

The only reward of virtue is virtue.

Try to look at your weakness and convert it into your strength. That's success.

A shy failure is nobler than an immodest success.

Personally, I enjoy working about 18 hours a day. Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.

Modern education is premised strongly on materialistic values. It is vital that when educating our children's brains that we do not neglect to educate their hearts, a key element of which has to be the nurturing of our compassionate nature.

Don't be afraid of new arenas.

I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary.