Inspirational Quotes
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
Success is the child of audacity.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
A man's dreams are an index to his greatness.
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."
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Obstacles are great incentives.
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
No man is wise enough by himself.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Never say more than is necessary.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
Reach for the stars.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
Think and grow rich.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
One man with courage is a majority.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
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.
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.
You're as old as you behave.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Count your blessings.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
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 ?
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
I never read a food column and think 'Wow I value your opinion' because everyone has an opinion now. What makes a columnist an expert? If you stay focused on your own goal, you'll be fine. It's when you start looking too far out that you're going to get lost.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
Happiness is a choice.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
Children are all foreigners.
The best way out is always through.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
Never complain about what you permit.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
Be Here Now.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !