Inspirational Quotes
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
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.
All things are created twice. There's a mental or first creation, and a physical or second creation of all things. You have to make sure that the blueprint, the first creation, is really what you want, that you've thought everything through. Then you put it into bricks and mortar. Each day you go to the construction shed and pull out the blueprint to get marching orders for the day. You begin with the end in mind.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
I never read a food column and think 'Wow I value your opinion' because everyone has an opinion now. What makes a columnist an expert? If you stay focused on your own goal, you'll be fine. It's when you start looking too far out that you're going to get lost.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
You always succeed in producing a result.
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to god, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done'. We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. That little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
You must motivate yourself every day.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right.
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
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.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Above all to thine own self be true.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Consider the little mouse how sagacious an animal it is which never entrusts his life to one whole only
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.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
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.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.