Inspirational Quotes
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
Kindness is always fashionable.
Make the second effort your second nature.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
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.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
What is strength without a double share of wisdom ?
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
Truth fears no questions.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
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.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
Never say die.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
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."
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
The world belongs to the energetic.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
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.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Try to be happy in this present moment, and put not off being so to a time to come, as though that time should be of another make from this which has already come and is ours.
You must motivate yourself every day.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
Do what you love and the money will follow
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
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.
There is time for everything.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Love understands all languages.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
The best things in life are free.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.