Inspirational Quotes
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.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
The point is that you can't be too greedy.
Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
Let thy words be few.
The crocodile is only strong in the water.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon- instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is ; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
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.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
I am the captain of my soul.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
If we all did the things we are really capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
The most important of life's battles is the one we fight daily in the silent chambers of the soul.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
Treat a man as he is and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he can and should be and he will become as he can and should be.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
I have seen him set fire to his wigwam and smooth over the graves of his fathers, clap his hand in silence over his mouth, and take the last look over his fair hunting ground, and turn his face in sadness to the setting sun.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
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.
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
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.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.