Inspirational Quotes
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Anything is possible.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
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.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Find the good -- and praise it.
It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
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."
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
Kindness is always fashionable.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
Reach for the stars.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
You create your reality.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.