Inspirational Quotes
Never Quit.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
The book you don't read cant help.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
The best leaders of all, the people know not they exist. They turn to each other and say, We did it ourselves.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
I love Ray, and I love how he always spoke from the heart, but if you listened to those speeches, a lot of them didn't even make sense. He meant everything he was saying, but I didn't know what he was talking about 90 percent of the time.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
You always succeed in producing a result.
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
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Attitude determines altitude.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
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."
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Believe in yourself.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Love understands all languages.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Security is a kind of death.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.