Inspirational Quotes
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
It is always your next move.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
Fortune favors the brave.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
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.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
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.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
One man with courage is a majority.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
When we place blame, we give away our power.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
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.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.
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.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
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.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
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".
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.