Inspirational Quotes
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
There are no gains without pains.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
You are what you think you are.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Seize the day.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
My friends are my estate.
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."
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Let thy words be few.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Life is a do-it yourself project.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
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.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
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.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
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.
Practice makes perfect.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Be courageous ! Whatever setbacks America has encountered, it has always emerged as a stronger and more prosperous nation. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward !
If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment ; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.