Inspirational Quotes
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.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
I assume everybody thinks they're a top-five quarterback. I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
This is the beginning of a new day.
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
Between stimulus and response, one has the freedom to choose.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Power is not really good or bad , it is neutral. Power itself is not negative or positive, although our feelings about it may be. Power is the potential to influence others for good or evil, to be a blessing or a scourge. Like nuclear energy, it can provide the electricity to light a city, or it can fuel the bomb that destroys it.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
He who stops being better stops being good.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Don't think it, ink it.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
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.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth - brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from god.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
Don't fear, just live right.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
Begin with the end in mind.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
Successful people make decisions quickly (as soon as all the facts are available) and change them very slowly (if ever). Unsuccessful people make decisions very slowly, and change them often and quickly.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
They alone live, who live for others.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
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.
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.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.