Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
He who has hope has everything.
They can because they think they can.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Practice makes perfect.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
No involvement, no commitment.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
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.
No pain, No gain.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
Success is never wondering what if.
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.
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.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Without a general an army is lost.
Never spend your money before you have it.
Don't ever give up.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
You'll find boredom where there is an absence of a good idea.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
Those who laugh - last!!
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
You can do what you want to do.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
And he can make, so say the wise, no claim who makes no sacrifice.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
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.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Confidence imparts a wonderful inspiration to its possessor.
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.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
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.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.