Inspirational Quotes
Unfortunately, most of the students in martial art are conformers. The student seldom learns to depend upon himself for expression. Instead, he faithfully or blindly follows an instructor, the authority figure, and his instructor's imposed pattern. That way, the student feels he is no longer alone and finds security in mass imitation. However, what is nurtured is the dependent mind rather than independent inquiry, which is so essential to genuine understanding. So through daily conditioning a student will probably be skilled according to a pattern, however, he will not come to understand himself.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
Love understands all languages.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
We carry the seeds of happiness with us wherever we go.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Common looking people are the best in the world : that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
Obstacles are what appear when you take your eyes off your dreams.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
Do it now !
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Accumulate learning by study, understand what you learn by questioning.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Begin with the end in mind.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
We are the only beings on the planet who lead such rich internal lives that it's not the events that matter most to us, but rather, it's how we interpret those events that will determine how we think about ourselves and how we will act in the future.
There are two things to aim at in life , first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Well done is better than well said.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
Don't quit.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
I light my candle from their torches.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
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.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.