Inspirational Quotes
Your attitude determines your altitude.
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
Think and grow rich.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
Begin with the end in mind.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Old love does not rust.
Live with passion !
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" through the greed of getting supporters.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
It is better to do the wrong thing than to do nothing.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
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."
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
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.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
Great men are not always wise.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
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.
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to god.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
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.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
You become what you think about.
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
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.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
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.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.