Inspirational Quotes
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
Faith can move mountains.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
When asked about clinching a playoff berth for Cleveland Browns during the 2023 NFL regular season - "You don't know how many of these moments you're going to get. Not too many people get the opportunity to have kids as old as mine and that understand what's going on - get to witness this. I'm going to remember this for the rest of my life. And anything that you get to do with people that you love, especially your children, they just make everything that much more special."
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
The sun will come up tomorrow
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
If you don't like something, change it , if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
After every happiness comes misery, they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature, both are chains -- one iron, one gold , behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change , but the nature of the atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it, only wash away the dross and see it.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
It is never too late to be what we might have been
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.