Inspirational Quotes
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
No involvement, no commitment.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
The successful man is the average man, focused.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
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.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
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."
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
Live your dreams.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
Live with passion.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Be who you are in every situation.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
They are able because they think they are able.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Life is a do-it yourself project.