Inspirational Quotes
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
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."
God gives us our relatives - thank God we can choose our friends.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
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.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
You always succeed in producing a result.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
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.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
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.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
Get busy living or get busy dying.
The buck stops here.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
Fortune favors the brave.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
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.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
Happiness is a state of mind.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
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.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
Live your dreams.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.
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.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
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.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
If the student thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better student. If the lawyer thinks he is the spirit, he will be a better lawyer, and so on.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.