Inspirational Quotes
The way we see the problem is the problem.
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
Hardening of the heart ages people faster than hardening of the arteries.
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.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
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.
That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
He who has hope has everything.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
As you think in your heart, so shall you be.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
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.
In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
If you would create something, you must be something.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
You must motivate yourself every day.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
The beginning is the half of every action.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
Love understands all languages.
Kind words conquer.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
There go the people. I must follow them for I am their leader.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
Kindness is always fashionable.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
Continuous effort, not strength or intelligence, is the key to unlocking our potential.
You know when you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
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.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
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.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
God is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and next life.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Almost all of the world-class athletes and other peak performers are visualizers. They see it , they feel it, they experience it before they actually do it. They began with the end in mind. You can do it in every area of your life. Before performance, a sales presentation, a difficult confrontation, or the daily challenge of meeting a goal, see it clearly, vividly, relentlessly, over and over again. Create an internal "comfort zone''. Then, when you get into the situation, it isn't foreign. It doesn't scare you.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
I do not believe in styles anymore. I do not believe that there is such a thing as the Chinese way of fighting or the Japanese way of fighting, or any other way of fighting, because unless a human being has three arms and four legs, there can be no different form of fighting. To me, ultimately, martial art means honestly expressing yourself.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a persons determination.
Encouragement is oxygen to the soul.
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
We can not always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.