Inspirational Quotes
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
Imitate until you emulate, match and surpass those who launched you. It's the highest form of thankfulness.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
The dove is my emblem... . I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it... . I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Those who laugh - last!!
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
One man with courage is a majority.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
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.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
Success is a journey not a destination.
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall , but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get 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.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
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.
Never stop dreaming.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.