Inspirational Quotes
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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 anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
There is no education like adversity.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
Talkers are no good doers.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
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.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
A bold onset is half the battle.
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.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Be all you can be.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Many hands make light work.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
You are what you think you are.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
Don't be hard on yourself. Embrace your journey with kindness and patience, recognizing that every step, even the small ones, is a part of your growth.
It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.
Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us footprints in the sands of time.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
He who dares nothing need hope for nothing.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.