Inspirational Quotes
May you live all the days of your life.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
There is no substitute for hard work.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
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.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
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.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of : Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, and the full fledged devotion to god. Faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
None of us will every accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin , it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene , if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.
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."
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals - that is, goals that do not inspire them.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Those who laugh - last!!
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
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.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become character.Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall , but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Happiness is a choice.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
Boldness in business is the first, second and third thing.
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.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
You become what you think about.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.