Inspirational Quotes
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
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. '
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
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.
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
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.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
The truth is more important than the facts.
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
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
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.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
May you live all the days of your life.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
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The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
The best way out is always through.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
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.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
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."
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.