Inspirational Quotes
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.
When the going gets tough the tough get going.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall , but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
The miracle power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance, under the promptings of a brave determined spirit.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.
Surprises and reverses can serve as an incentive for great accomplishment. There are no rules here, we're just trying to accomplish something.
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.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Anything is possible.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
I have not failed. I've just found ways that don't work
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
My life is my message.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are not.
Examine the opportunities, the challenges you've given yourself.