Inspirational Quotes
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
Happiness is a choice.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
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.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
Don't fear, just live right.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
Volunteers don't get paid, not because they're worthless, but because they're priceless.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
Rely on your own strength of body and soul. Take for your star self-reliance, faith, honesty and industry. Don't take too much advice keep at the helm and steer your own ship, and remember that the great art of commanding is to take a fair share of the work. Fire above the mark you intend to hit. Energy, invincible determination with the right motive, are the levers that move the world.
Self-knowledge is the basis of JKD because it is effective, not only for the individuals martial art, but also for his life as a human being.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, 'Well, I'll have a go, too.'
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
The best things in life are free.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
Believe it can be done. When you believe something can be done, really believe, your mind will find the ways to do it. Believing a solution paves the way to solution.
Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability... . We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain.
Never, never, never give up.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
Never Quit.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.