Inspirational Quotes
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
Success leaves clues.
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.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
Practice makes perfect.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
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
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
I am a great believer in luck and I find that the harder I work the more I have of it.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
Hard work pays off.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
Volunteering is not a choice, it's a responsibility.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
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.
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."
Nothing succeeds like success.
God doesn't make junk.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
There is no substitute for hard work.
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 maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
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.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.