Inspirational Quotes
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
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.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
Only the educated are free.
Hope springs eternal.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
If you can dream it, you can do it.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Truth fears no questions.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
Luck happens when opportunity encounters the prepared mind.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
I assume everybody thinks they're a top-five quarterback. I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
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."
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
Success is the child of audacity.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
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.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
We will either find a way or make one.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
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.
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.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.