Inspirational Quotes
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
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.
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Live life to the fullest.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of god is confined to this or that book ? How dare men call god infinite, and yet try to compress him within the covers of a little book !
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter
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 the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
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.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
He who has hope has everything.
Inch by inch, it's a cinch.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
Seize the day.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
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.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
It's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
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.
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
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.
Grow deep - not just tall.
There is no security on this earth ; there is only opportunity.
They can because they think they can.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Never stop dreaming.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
You can do what you want to do.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Friendship is not born of words alone.