Inspirational Quotes
You become what you think about.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
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.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
Never spend your money before you have it.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
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.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
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.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
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.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
Unfortunately, most of the students in martial art are conformers. The student seldom learns to depend upon himself for expression. Instead, he faithfully or blindly follows an instructor, the authority figure, and his instructor's imposed pattern. That way, the student feels he is no longer alone and finds security in mass imitation. However, what is nurtured is the dependent mind rather than independent inquiry, which is so essential to genuine understanding. So through daily conditioning a student will probably be skilled according to a pattern, however, he will not come to understand himself.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
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.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
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."
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
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.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
In each man there is a priceless treasure that is in no other. Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. Accordingly, a 'genius' is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are !
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.