Inspirational Quotes
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.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
It's not about the money. It's about what you feel you deserve.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Attitude is everything.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
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.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
The key to truth is the next deed, and this key opens the door if one does what one has to do in such a way that the meaning of the action here finds its fulfillment. Thus truth in the world of man is not to be found as the content of knowledge, but only as human existence. One does not express it, one does not perceive it, but one lives it, and receives it as life.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
I light my candle from their torches.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
Live your life and forget your age.
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.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
It's easier to prepare and prevent, than to repair and repent.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Don't think it, ink it.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress, in individuals and nations.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time ?
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
Whatever it takes !
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
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.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
One cannot think crooked and walk straight.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody is watching.
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
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.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
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.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.