Inspirational Quotes
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
Self-knowledge is the basis of JKD because it is effective, not only for the individuals martial art, but also for his life as a human being.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
Trust men and they will be true to you, treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
You become what you think about.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
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.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
The leader wonders about everything, wants to learn as much as he can, is willing to take risks, experiment, try new things. He does not worry about failure, but embraces errors, knowing he will learn from them.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
The time is always right to do what is right.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
The past does not equal the future.
Hope springs eternal.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
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.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
Sometimes, all you need to invent something is a good imagination and a pile of junk.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
Nothing happens unless first we dream.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
Find the good -- and praise it.
This is the best kind of voyeurism, hearing joy from your neighbors.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
After your jump, the net appears.
Anything is possible.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
Man is a ladder placed on the earth and the top of it touches heaven. And all his movements and doings and words leave traces in the upper world.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
For with god all things are possible.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
The idea for Googles search engine came to Page in a dream about downloading the entire web and keeping the links, he told Michigan graduates. When no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition, he said.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.