Inspirational Quotes
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
Your current safe boundaries were once unknown frontiers.
They can because they think they can.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Never say die.
Don't fear, just live right.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
What ever you are be a good one.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
If not us, who, if not now, when ?
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
High expectations are the key to everything.
In love beggar and king are equal.
Great oaks from little acorns grow
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
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.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
Actions speak louder than words.
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.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
The harder you fall the higher you bounce.
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.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Kind words conquer.
A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
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.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
No matter how small, acknowledge the achievement.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
They can because they think they can.
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt. . . . If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
The best way out is always through.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.