Inspirational Quotes
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
Attitude determines altitude.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
Roll with the punches.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
He who has hope has everything.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
No one became poor by giving alms.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
This too, shall pass.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
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."
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
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.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.