Inspirational Quotes
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
The best things in life are not things.
Hard work pays off.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
Be the best that you can be.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
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.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
It's never too late.
In life you can never be too kind or too fair ; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
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.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
He who has hope has everything.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
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.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
In imagination, there's no limitation.
Life is change, growth is optional. Choose wisely.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
Stand as a rock , you are indestructible. You are the Self ( atman ) , the god of the universe.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
In all the other movies that I’ve done, as well as my life. You know, I’ve been tagged. I guess we all have been tagged, right? We’re all alive. Right here, right now! This is happening. We’re alive!
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
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."
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
Do it now !
If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
The buck stops here.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.