Inspirational Quotes
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
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
Advice is seldom welcome , and those who want it the most always like it the least.
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm. As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
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.
It is not our purpose to become each other , it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.
Slow but steady wins the race.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time.
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though chequered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
A bold onset is half the battle.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
Because I readily absorb ideas from every source - frequently starting where the last person left off - I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal ; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
It's easier to remember when you are right than when the other person was right.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
Success is a journey not a destination.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
Little strokes fell great oaks.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
The only real valuable thing is intuition.