Inspirational Quotes
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
An error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
He who has hope has everything.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
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."
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.
Attitude determines altitude.
Practice makes perfect.
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Security is a kind of death.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
Nothing succeeds like success.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes, and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
To understand your parents love you must raise children yourself.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.