Inspirational Quotes
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
A man is about as big as the things that make him angry.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable , and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Ideas without action are worthless.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
It doesn't matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
An avoidance of true communication is tantamount to a relinquishment of my self- being , if I withdraw from it I am betraying not only the other but myself.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
Whenever your present situation, I assure you that you are not your habits. You can replace old patterns of self-defeating behavior with new patterns, new habits of the effectiveness, happiness, and trust-based relationships.
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.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
This one step, choosing a goal and sticking to it, changes everything.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Ideas... they have the power
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Laughter is the best medicine.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
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.
We have not yet begun to fight.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
The best things in life are free.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
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.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
The vedanta recognizes no sin, it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.
Along with trustworthiness, consistency is the thing to look for when you surround yourself with people who can help you on your quest.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
In all the other movies that I’ve done, as well as my life. You know, I’ve been tagged. I guess we all have been tagged, right? We’re all alive. Right here, right now! This is happening. We’re alive!