Inspirational Quotes
Necessity is the mother of invention.
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Actions speak louder than words.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
None are homely who smile.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
It ain't over till it's over.
Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
Anything that we have to learn we learn by the actual doing of it we become just by performing just acts, temperate by performing temperate ones, brave by performing brave ones.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
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.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
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 main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
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."
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
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.
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
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.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
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.
Success leaves clues.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Honesty is the best image.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcomed invaluable, but it does not free him from responsibility.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
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.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer