Inspirational Quotes
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
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.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
From success to failure is one step , from failure to success is a long road.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Well done is better than well said.
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
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.
Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give the world your best anyway.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
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.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
The winners in life think constantly in terms of I can, I will, and I am. Losers, on the other hand, concentrate their waking thoughts on what they should have or would have done, or what they can't do.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
The soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.
The will to prepare is more important than the will to win.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Duty is to encourage everyone in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the truth.
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.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
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.
If you would create something, you must be something.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.