Inspirational Quotes
One of the main reasons people are not rich is that they worry too much about things that might never happen. quotes
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
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.
When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
There is no substitute for hard work.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
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.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
He who stops being better stops being good.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
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.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
There are no secrets to success it is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
None are homely who smile.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
Get busy living or get busy dying.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
It ain't over till it's over.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
Self-knowledge is the basis of JKD because it is effective, not only for the individuals martial art, but also for his life as a human being.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
Opportunity does not knock ; it presents itself when you beat down the door. -
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
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.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
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 Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.