Inspirational Quotes
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
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.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is often a step forward.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
Live with passion.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
Kindness is tenderness. Kindness is love, but perhaps greater than loveKindness is good will. Kindness says, I want you to be happy.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
Hunker down.
My main purpose in life is to make money so I can afford to go on creating more inventions.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Unfortunately, most of the students in martial art are conformers. The student seldom learns to depend upon himself for expression. Instead, he faithfully or blindly follows an instructor, the authority figure, and his instructor's imposed pattern. That way, the student feels he is no longer alone and finds security in mass imitation. However, what is nurtured is the dependent mind rather than independent inquiry, which is so essential to genuine understanding. So through daily conditioning a student will probably be skilled according to a pattern, however, he will not come to understand himself.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
To become a leader, then, you must become yourself, become the maker of your own life.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
All resources are not obvious, great managers find and develop available talent.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Only the educated are free.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
They are able because they think they are able.
In addition to self-awareness, imagination, and conscience, it is the fourth human endowment -- independent will -- that really makes effective self-management possible. It is the ability to make decisions and choices and to act in accordance with them. It is the ability to act rather than to be acted upon, to proactively carry out the program we have developed through the other three endowments. Empowerment comes from learning how to use this great endowment in the decisions we make every day.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
Put off for one day and ten days will pass by.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
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.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
The only guide to man is his conscience , the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations, but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot , but make it hot by striking.
In all the other movies that I’ve done, as well as my life. You know, I’ve been tagged. I guess we all have been tagged, right? We’re all alive. Right here, right now! This is happening. We’re alive!
You must take personal responsibility. You can not change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true, this I have learnt after suffering all my life, all else is mere moonshine.