Inspirational Quotes
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
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."
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
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.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
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.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing-that's why we recommend it daily.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
The ready back gets all the loads.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
In all the other movies that I’ve done, as well as my life. You know, I’ve been tagged. I guess we all have been tagged, right? We’re all alive. Right here, right now! This is happening. We’re alive!
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
We tend to live up to our expectations.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
Look within, for within is the wellspring of virtue, which will not cease flowing, if you cease not from digging.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
When a man comes to a conscious vital realization of those great spiritual forces within himself and begins to use those forces in science, in business, and in life, his progress in the future will be unparalleled.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
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.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.