Inspirational Quotes
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
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.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
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."
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
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.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
After your jump, the net appears.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
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.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
Progress is the activity of today and the assurance of tomorrow
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
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.
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
High expectations are the key to everything.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Honesty is the best image.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
Always do right, this will gratify some and astonish the rest.