Sri Chinmoy Quotes

The way most people fail is in not keeping up the heart.

You can do anything you want to do as long as you keep a good attitude and keep working at it. But the second you give up, you’re screwed.

Life, like classical music, is full of difficult passages that are conquered as much through endurance and determination as through any particular skill.

Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.

Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.

If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart. You can have the greatest coaches in the world, all the opportunities to play, and the greatest equipment, but if you don't have it inside, you're not going to make it. On the other hand, if you don't have any of those luxuries but you have heart and courage and the guts to go out there and grind it out, then you'll make it.

Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place.

I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.

At the end of the day, you can be physically strong, you can have all the tools out there, but if your mental state isn't good enough, you can't bring yourself to bigger and better things.

Athletics is not so much about the legs. It's about the heart and mind.

I dropped out of school; I got fired from my job. Those were my roughest moments, but I always knew through it that I was going to be great.

You have to be tough and stick it out, or you wind up being nothing.

The cheerful mind perseveres and the strong mind hews its way through a thousand difficulties.

The point of life is not who falls down. The point is who gets up and how you do it.

It's a matter of will. If you know that you can keep your head, and that you must keep your head, you probably will keep your head.

I train myself for triumph by knowing it is mine no matter what.

The hope of courage lies in every heart, together with the fear that we will fail. When the test came, you did not fail.

I have to accept everything... I will be back strong.

Despondency is not a state of humility; on the contrary, it is the vexation and despair of a cowardly pride--nothing is worse; whether we stumble or whether we fall, we must only think of rising again and going on in our course.

Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper.

I'm not a girl anymore, I'm a woman and my heart beats like prizefighter's fists, and I have not stopped yet, I will not stop.

Everybody comes to a point in their life when they want to quit. But it's what you do at that moment that determines who you are.

I learned, one, you shouldn't ever quit. And I learned, two, you'll never be able to explain it to anybody

I remember everyone telling me I had to think positive when I was writing my first book. If I believed I could do it, then I could! If I pictured myself published, then it was going to happen! Which sounded great, except...could I do it? If I didn't think I could, was I doomed to fail? What if I was almost totally sure I would fail? I am here to tell you-what matters is sticking with it.