Proverbs 29:18
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
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The past does not equal the future.
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
Love thy neighbour as thyself.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
Find out what it means to die - not physically, that's inevitable - but to die to everything that is known, to die to your family, to your attachments, to all the things that you have accumulated, the known, the known pleasures, the known fears. Die to that every minute and you will see what it means to die so that the mind is made fresh, young, and therefore innocent, so that there is incarnation not in a next life, but the next day.
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.
What do you feel like doing tonight ?
Show me the money !
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
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.
My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.
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.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
May the Force be with you.
Ability is sexless.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly.
Never complain about what you permit.
In order to love simply, it is necessary to know how to show love.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
I do not believe in styles anymore. I do not believe that there is such a thing as the Chinese way of fighting or the Japanese way of fighting, or any other way of fighting, because unless a human being has three arms and four legs, there can be no different form of fighting. To me, ultimately, martial art means honestly expressing yourself.
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.
Well, it's not the men in your life that counts, it's the life in your men.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day
I am your father.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
I love thee, I love but thee with a love that shall not die till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for their religion. I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more. I could be martyr'd for my religion. Love is my religion. And I could die for that. I could die for you.
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
Love is a verb.
Defeat is not bitter unless you swallow it.
If you wanna call me that, smile.
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
Look at that ! Look how she moves. That's just like Jell-O on springs. She must have some sort of built-in motor. I tell you, it's a whole different sex !
It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
We don't have to take our clothes off to have a good time
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life , that word is love.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
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.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
The willow knows what the storm does not that the power to endure harm outlives the power to inflict it.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
The time is always right to do what is right.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
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 is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
Love like you'll never be hurt.
Let he him who would be moved to convince others, be first moved to convince himself.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
Come out, come out, wherever you are !