Inspirational Quotes
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
Don't ever give up.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
I have seen so many of these, and lived with them, and travelled with them, and oftentimes felt as if I should starve to death on an equal allowance, that I am fully convinced I am correct in saying that the North American Indians, taking them in the aggregate, even where they have an abundance to subsist on, eat less than any civilized population of equal numbers, that I have ever travelled amongst.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is ; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
I light my candle from their torches.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
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".
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
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
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 ?
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."
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
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.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
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.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.