Inspirational Quotes
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
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.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
Actions speak louder than words.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
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 only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
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.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
Live life to the fullest.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
Love conquers all.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Keep away from small 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.
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
Talkers are no good doers.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Be all you can be.
Well done is better than well said.
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
The world belongs to the energetic.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
Never say more than is necessary.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
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.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
Want to learn to eat a lot ? Here it is : Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
It's nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in you.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
Perfect love can not be without equality.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.