Inspirational Quotes
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
It is amazing how much people can get done if they do not worry about who gets the credit.
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
My life is my message.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
There are no gains without pains.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
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.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
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.
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
I do not believe in styles anymore. I do not believe that there is such a thing as the Chinese way of fighting or the Japanese way of fighting, or any other way of fighting, because unless a human being has three arms and four legs, there can be no different form of fighting. To me, ultimately, martial art means honestly expressing yourself.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
If it is to be it is up to me.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
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.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
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.
Success is never wondering what if.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
Be all you can be.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
Embrace that it's ok to grow.
What is tolerance ? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error , let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature.
The cherokee people are not "my people".
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
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
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to god.
Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.
I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious -- because the obvious is what people need to be told.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones tend to take care of themselves.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.