Inspirational Quotes
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
He who hesitates is lost.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
Talkers are no good doers.
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
Love conquers all.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
They can because they think they can.
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.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
We must be bright and cheerful, long faces do not make religion.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
What ever you are be a good one.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
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."
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
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.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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.
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.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
One man with courage is a majority.
Remove failure as an option.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.