Inspirational Quotes
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
Embrace your inner voice.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
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.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
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.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
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.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Happiness is a state of activity.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
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 only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Keep in mind that you are always saying "no" to something. If it isn't to the apparent, urgent things in your life, it is probably to the most fundamental, highly important things. Even when the urgent is good, the good can keep you from your best, keep you from your unique contribution, if you let it.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
They can because they think they can.
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.