Inspirational Quotes
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
The show must go on.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
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.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it is called present.
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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."
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
Attitude is everything.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
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.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
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.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
The best way out is always through.
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
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 doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
Never spend your money before you have it.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
You become what you think about.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.