Inspirational Quotes
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
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.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
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.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
It's not about the money. It's about what you feel you deserve.
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.
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
Nature does nothing uselessly.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Never say die.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.
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."
Self-knowledge is the basis of JKD because it is effective, not only for the individuals martial art, but also for his life as a human being.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
Be the best that you can be.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.