Inspirational Quotes
You become what you think about.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
Our intentions create our reality.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
You see, it's never the environment ; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events - how we interpret them - that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow. quotes
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
Change comes from within.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
The world belongs to the energetic.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
Never say die.
Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Don't ever give up.
Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough.
Never complain about what you permit.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
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.
If there is a will, there is a way.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon- instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
The truth is more important than the facts.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
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."
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.