Inspirational Quotes
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
The best things in life are not things.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
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.
The more goals you set - the more goals you get.
When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you cannot hold on a minute longer, never give up then for that is just the place and time the tide will turn.
Self-knowledge is the basis of JKD because it is effective, not only for the individuals martial art, but also for his life as a human being.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
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.
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.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
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.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
Never stop dreaming.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
I love Ray, and I love how he always spoke from the heart, but if you listened to those speeches, a lot of them didn't even make sense. He meant everything he was saying, but I didn't know what he was talking about 90 percent of the time.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
Nothing succeeds like success.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
Slow but steady wins the race.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.