Inspirational Quotes
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
Hope springs eternal.
All work is empty save when there is love.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
A dream is a wish your heart makes.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
Who is the happiest of men ? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though'twere his own.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
Change comes from within.
Don't fear, just live right.
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.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
We must have friendship for all, we must be merciful toward those that are in misery, when people are happy, we ought to be happy, and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
Live life with passion.
Hard work pays off.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
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.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
Every artist was first an amateur.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
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.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
Action, to be effective, must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
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.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
Live life to the fullest.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
Success is predictable.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
The road to success is always under construction.
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.