Inspirational Quotes
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.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
The book you don't read cant help.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Happiness is a choice.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
Hunker down.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
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.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
Without a general an army is lost.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
Above all, beware of compromises. Hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others fads through the greed of getting supporters. Your atman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of ?
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
Whatever you are be a good one.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
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."
There is a great man who makes every man feels small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.