Inspirational Quotes
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
So whether or not we can get together, remember well that art lives where absolute freedom is. With all the training thrown to nowhere, with a mind perfectly unaware of its own working, with the self vanishing nowhere the art of JKD attains its perfection.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
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.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
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.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
Most people are about as happy as they make up their mind to be.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
There's no abiding success without commitment.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
Between stimulus and response is our greatest power -- the freedom to choose.
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
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.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
How you react when the joke's on you can reveal your character.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
Sooner or later the truth comes to light.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
The best things in life are free.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
Success is the child of audacity.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
Honesty characterizes the person and enables him to create an identity, to communicate a real presence, and to establish authentic bonds with others. The individual increasingly comes to know who he is through the stand he takes when he expresses his ideas, values, beliefs, and convictions, and through the declaration and ownership of his feelings.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
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.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
The road to success is always under construction.
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.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
The person we believe ourselves to be will always act in a manner consistent with our self-image.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.