Inspirational Quotes
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
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.
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
The beginning is the half of every action.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
We must be the change we wish to see.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
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.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
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.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
He who stops being better stops being good.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
The ready back gets all the loads.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which belie the idea that things can not be changed.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing, it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
Believe in yourself.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.