Inspirational Quotes
Know thyself.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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.
Success is predictable.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
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.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
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.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
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.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
To go fast, row slowly.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
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.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
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 most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
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."
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
Honesty is the best image.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.