Inspirational Quotes
Begin with the end in mind.
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
Do or do not, there is no try.
Don't quit.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
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.
Things do not change we change.
Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Think and grow rich.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
To ask the hard question is simple.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going!
The book you don't read cant help.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
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.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.
Learning is definitely not mere imitation or the ability to accumulate and conform to fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery and never a concluding one. In JKD we begin not by accumulation but by discovering the cause of our ignorance, and oftentimes this involves a shedding process. Truth will not come until we have come to understand personally the whole process of the working of our being. After all, ultimately, knowledge in martial art simply means self-knowledge, and JKD can become intelligible only in the vigorous and constant process of self-inquiry and self-discovery.
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
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.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Be all you can be.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
Hope springs eternal.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
Live with passion.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
Faith can move mountains.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
Life is a great story. It's just that sometimes we forget we are the author and can write it however we want.
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow.
Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.