Inspirational Quotes
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
This too, shall pass.
Never spend your money before you have it.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do 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.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
Actions speak louder than words.
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade ?
My life is my message.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
Curse ruthless time ! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it.
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.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
Truth fears no questions.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
A gentleman can withstand hardships , it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
A bold onset is half the battle.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
If there is a will, there is a way.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
One can spend a lifetime assigning blame, find the cause 'out there' for all the troubles that exist. Contrast this with the 'responsible attitude' of confronting the situation, bad or good, and instead of asking, 'What caused the trouble ? Who was to blame ?' asking 'How can I handle this present situation to make the most of it ? What can I salvage here ?'
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
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.
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
Success is never wondering what if.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
The best things in life are free.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
Remove failure as an option.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
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.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Hope springs eternal.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.