Inspirational Quotes
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
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.
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
If you don't first handle fear and desire, and you get rich, you'll be a high pay slave.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
The road to success is always under construction.
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.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
It takes a whole village to raise a child.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
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.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
Strike while the iron is hot.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
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.
If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised.
Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others "fads" through the greed of getting supporters.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcomed invaluable, but it does not free him from responsibility.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
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.
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.
If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.
None are homely who smile.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
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.
He who stops being better stops being good.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
Anything is possible.
Ability is sexless.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
I demolish my bridges behind methen there is no choice but to move forward. Firdtjof Nansen I do not cast my eyes away from my troubles. I pack them in as little compass as I can for myself, and never let them annoy others.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs" but goes right to work on the creative "how''.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
We will either find a way or make one.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.