Inspirational Quotes
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
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."
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
Whatever it takes !
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
There is time for everything.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
World is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We can not choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
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 only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Attitude is everything.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
The toughest part of getting to the top of the ladder, is getting through the crowd at the bottom.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
You become what you think about.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
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.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
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.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
They are able because they think they are able.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
Don't think it, ink it.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.