Inspirational Quotes
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at 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."
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Talkers are no good doers.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
Many hands make light work.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
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
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
Don't fear, just live right.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Well done is better than well said.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
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 best way to predict the future is to create it.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.
Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
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.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
The beginning is the half of every action.
What ever you are be a good one.