Inspirational Quotes
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 truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
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 most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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."
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you often get it.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
First law on holes - when you're in one, stop digging.
Triumph often is nearest when defeat seems inescapable.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
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.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
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.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
Happiness is a state of mind.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
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.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
Those who laugh - last!!
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
There are no gains without pains.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.