Inspirational Quotes
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
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."
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
Every human heart is human.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
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".
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
Above all to thine own self be true.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
No man is wise enough by himself.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Life is what you make it.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of : Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, and the full fledged devotion to god. Faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers.
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.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
I never let my subject get in the way of what I want to talk about.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
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.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.