Inspirational Quotes
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
You become what you think about.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
Without a general an army is lost.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
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.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
Never stop dreaming.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
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.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
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 ?
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
You see, when we have the opportunity of working out, you'll see that your way of thinking is definitely not the same as mine. Art, after all, is a means of acquiring personal liberty. Your way is not my way nor mine yours.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
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.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
Attitude determines altitude.
When you reach for the stars, you may not get one, but you won't come up with a handful of mud, either.
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
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."
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
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.
Great men are not always wise.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
Obstacles are great incentives.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
It's always too soon to quit !
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.