Inspirational Quotes
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.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
It ain't over till it's over.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
Stand up, be bold, be strong. Take the whole responsibility on your own shoulders, and know that you are the creator of your own destiny. All the strength and succor you want is within yourself. Therefore, make your own future.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
You're as old as you behave.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
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.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
The first step towards success in any occupation is to become interested in it.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
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.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
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.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
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.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
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.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
Every artist was first an amateur.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this ? And radio operates exactly the same way : you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.
The path to success is to take massive, determined action.
Synergy is everywhere in nature. If you plant two plants close together, the roots commingle and improve the quality of soil so that both plants will grow better than if they were separated. If you put two pieces of wood together, they will hold much more weight than the total of the weight held by each separately. The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. One plus one equals three or more.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin , it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene , if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
Kind words conquer.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
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.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
It's not about the money. It's about what you feel you deserve.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
It's to be expected that you make mistakes when you're breaking new ground.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
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.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.