Inspirational Quotes
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
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.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
Old love does not rust.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.
Well done is better than well said.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
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.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
You are what you think you are.
None are homely who smile.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
You create your reality.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.
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.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed
When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
One does evil enough when one does nothing good.
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.
Many hands make light work.
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.
Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.