Inspirational Quotes
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
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 !
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
Think and grow rich.
The price of greatness is responsibility.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
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.
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
They are able because they think they are able.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Money without brains is always dangerous.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Live your dreams.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Well done is better than well said.
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
We came to enjoy, we are being enjoyed. We came to rule, we are being ruled. We came to work, we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life.
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
We will either find a way or make one.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
I know people that got diagnosed with Parkinson's, and they just gave up. Sat in a wheelchair and refused to get up. I'll never give up. Some day this will probably take me, but I'm not going to walk away from life.
The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true, this I have learnt after suffering all my life, all else is mere moonshine.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
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.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
Fortune favors the brave.