Inspirational Quotes
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
The fastest way to pass your own expectation is to add passion to your labor.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place. You can make goals for family, relationships, anything.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
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.
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
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.
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.
People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
We must be the change we wish to see.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
Don't ask for a light load, but rather ask for a strong back.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Only the educated are free.
We have got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals, and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
You live with your thoughts, so be careful what they are.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
Each action can be the one on which all depends , what is decisive is only the strength and concentration of hallowing with which I do it. To the question of what had been the most essential matter for his late teacher, a disciple answered, 'Always just what he was engaged in at the moment'.
The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.
The principles you live by create the world you live in ; if you change the principles you live by, you will change your world. -
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
Do what you love and the money will follow
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you'll help them to become what they are capable of becoming.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
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.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
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.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
Attitude is everything.
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
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.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
When you do the wrong thing, knowing it is wrong, you do so because you have n't developed the habit of effectively controlling or neutralizing strong inner urges that tempt you, or because you have established the wrong habit and don't know how to eliminate them effectively.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
Tell me and I forget , show me and I remember , involve me and I understand.
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.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
Ideas... they have the power
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.