Inspirational Quotes
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
If you would create something, you must be something.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
Actions speak louder than words.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
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.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
Don't ever give up.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
Kind words conquer.
Hunker down.
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
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.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
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.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
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.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
The road to success is always under construction.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
Be all you can be.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
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.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
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 do what we must, and call it by the best names.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
There are no gains without pains.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Carpe diem.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
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.
Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moments you reject all help, are you free. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life.
All work is empty save when there is love.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.