Inspiring Quotes - Page 2

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.

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

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

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

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

Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Nobody's free until everybody's free.

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

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.

This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

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

This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

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

Authority, power, and wealth do not change a man; they only reveal him

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