Inspirational Quotes
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
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 a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
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
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Remember that nobody will ever get ahead of you as long as he is kicking you in the seat of the pants.
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 fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Persistence is what makes the impossible possible, the possible likely, and the likely definite.
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.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Live life with passion.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Make the second effort your second nature.
Never stop dreaming.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
Let thy words be few.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what ?
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
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.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.