Inspirational Quotes
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
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.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
All misfortune is but a stepping stone to fortune.
Success is having a flair for the thing that you are doing , knowing that is it not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god. For one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
Every human heart is human.
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.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.
Nothing succeeds like success.
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
You always succeed in producing a result.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender , it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.
Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it back.
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
Be all you can be.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
Champions are a rare breed. They see beyond the dangers, the risks, the obstacles, and the hardships.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word freedom , justice , honor , duty , mercy , hope.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
Ideas without action are worthless.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
Self-knowledge is the basis of JKD because it is effective, not only for the individuals martial art, but also for his life as a human being.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Where there's life, there's hope.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
Live life with passion.
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.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.