Inspirational Quotes
Winners take time to relish their work, knowing that scaling the mountain is what makes the view from the top so exhilarating.
Carpe diem.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
After your jump, the net appears.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.
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.
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.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
He who hesitates is lost !
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
They alone live, who live for others.
Growth and change are never easy... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
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.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
I think therefore I am
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Love understands all languages.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
It's not enough that we do our best, sometimes we have to do what's required.
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.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
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.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon- instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
Do what you love and the money will follow
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
Don't fear, just live right.