Inspirational Quotes
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
It is never too late to be what we might have been
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
Someday, man will harness the rise and fall of the tides, imprison the power of the sun, and release atomic power.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
Never say more than is necessary.
You'll never plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.
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.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
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.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy -- unless you let him.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
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.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
What we hope to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
Happiness is a state of mind.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Better late than never.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan, you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
You're as old as you behave.
To ask the hard question is simple.
Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
I am fond of only what comes from the heart.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.