Inspirational Quotes
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
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.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
Let thy words be few.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
To ask the hard question is simple.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
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.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
Don't ever give up.
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.
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.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
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.
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.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
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 meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self- realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in