Inspirational Quotes
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
Grow deep - not just tall.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
You always succeed in producing a result.
If there is a will, there is a way.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
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.
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
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."
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
Never stop dreaming.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
Don't quit.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
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.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
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
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
The sun will come up tomorrow
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
If it is to be it is up to me.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.