Inspirational Quotes
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
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."
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
I do not believe in styles anymore. I do not believe that there is such a thing as the Chinese way of fighting or the Japanese way of fighting, or any other way of fighting, because unless a human being has three arms and four legs, there can be no different form of fighting. To me, ultimately, martial art means honestly expressing yourself.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
We must be the change we wish to see.
Ability is sexless.
Anything is possible.
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 future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
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.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
Do it now !
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
All work is empty save when there is love.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
We have not yet begun to fight.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
Don't ask yourself what the world needs , ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.