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Inspirational Quotes

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.

Bruce Lee

As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?

Christy Borgeld

Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.

Lori Hard

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

Charles F. Kettering

Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.

Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes

In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.

Henry David Thoreau

Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.

Seneca

Practice makes perfect.

Unknown

Never, never, never give up.

Winston Churchill

I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.

Stephen Covey

Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.

Carl Sandburg

My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.

Molly McDonald

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.

Buddha

If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.

Anna Quindlen

Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig

Mark Twain

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Abraham Lincoln

Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.

Satchel Paige

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Helen Keller

Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.

Warren G. Bennis

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.

Swami Vivekananda

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."

Samuel Johnson

What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.

Isaac Bashevis

Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Thomas Jefferson

Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.

Mark Victor Hansen

God doesn't make junk.

Unknown

We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''

W. Clement Stone

The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.

Swami Vivekananda

Begin with the end in mind.

Stephen Covey

Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.

Norman Vincent Peale

I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.

Brian Tracy

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Napoleon Bonaparte

If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.

Anonymous

In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

Unknown

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

Charles F. Kettering

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Abraham Lincoln

If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.

Anonymous

For hope is but the dream of those that wake.

Matthew Prior

Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.

W. Clement Stone

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.

Albert Einstein

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.

Margaret Laurence

The ready back gets all the loads.

Latvian Proverbs

People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.

Anonymous

Give all to love; obey thy heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes

Dennis Waitley

Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.

Dale E. Turner

The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.

Martha Washington

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Walter Anderson

Never give in -- never, never, never, never.

Winston Churchill

There is time for everything.

Thomas Edison

No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.

Martin Buber

For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.

Earl Nightingale

Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.

Swami Vivekananda

All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.

Walter Anderson

Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.

Hugh Prather

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

When you can't solve the problem, manage it.

Robert H. Schuller

Happiness is a state of activity.

Aristotle

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

Jim Horning

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?

Jim Rohn

If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.

Anonymous

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Winston Churchill

No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

G. K. Chesterton

It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.

Anthony Robbins

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.

Napoleon Hill

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

T.S. Eliot

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.

Earl Nightingale

Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

W. Clement Stone

To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.

Soren Kierkegaard

It is love that makes the impossible possible.

Indian Proverb

He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.

Japanese Proverb

The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.

John P. Strelecky

To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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.

Albert Einstein

If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.

Abigail Van Buren

Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.

Bill Blackman

It's always darkest before the dawn.

Unknown

One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.

Harvey Mackay

God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.

Swami Vivekananda

In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.

Swami Vivekananda

As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.

Bible

Obstacles are great incentives.

Jules Michelet

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Albert Einstein

What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.

Anthony Robbins

You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.

Unknown