Inspirational Quotes
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
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.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
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
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
It's not about the money. It's about what you feel you deserve.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
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.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
The person who says it can not be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
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.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
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.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Faith can move mountains.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
We need to embrace that the things that we love come to an end. And to not take them for granted. To step back & make sure we really live in the moments which matter to us. Not just being there as a participant. But to really be there a 100%.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
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.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
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.
I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil -- the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life. This is simply the constant radiation of what man really is, not what he pretends to be.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon- instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
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."
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
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.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
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.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
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 !
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.