Inspirational Quotes
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
A man should have any number of little aims about which he should be conscious and for which he should have names, but he should have neither name for, nor consciousness concerning, the main aim of his life.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
Change comes from within.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
Don't be hard on yourself. Embrace your journey with kindness and patience, recognizing that every step, even the small ones, is a part of your growth.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
Grow deep - not just tall.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
Obstacles are great incentives.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
It ain't over till it's over.
To ask the hard question is simple.
Honesty is the best image.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Challenges are what make life interesting , overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
Learning is definitely not mere imitation or the ability to accumulate and conform to fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery and never a concluding one. In JKD we begin not by accumulation but by discovering the cause of our ignorance, and oftentimes this involves a shedding process. Truth will not come until we have come to understand personally the whole process of the working of our being. After all, ultimately, knowledge in martial art simply means self-knowledge, and JKD can become intelligible only in the vigorous and constant process of self-inquiry and self-discovery.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
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.
Hard work pays off.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Without a general an army is lost.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.