Inspirational Quotes
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Boldness, more boldness, and always boldness !
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
Whatever it takes !
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
A gentle breeze blowing in the right direction is better than a pair of strong oars.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
We have not yet begun to fight.
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
The road to success is always under construction.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
To ask the hard question is simple.
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.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
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.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
What is the use of living if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
You become what you think about.
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident... . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
The daily grind of hard work gets a person polished.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
We will either find a way or make one.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
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.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
Hope springs eternal.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
He who has hope has everything.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
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 !
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
Success is the child of audacity.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.