Inspirational Quotes
When god closes a door, he opens a window.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
Almost any idea is good if a man has ability and is willing to work hard. The best idea is worthless if the creator is a loafer and ineffective.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
No act of kindness, no matter how small is ever wasted.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
Hunker down.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgment, repeated every day.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. quotes
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope or confidence.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
In love beggar and king are equal.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
Immaturity can last a lifetime.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
The difficulties and distresses to which we have been exposed during the war must now be forgotten. We must endeavor to let our ways be the way of pleasantness and all our paths peace.
Be the change you want to see in the world Ghandi Be useful where thou livest.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
Those at the top of the mountain didn't fall there.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. . . . Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
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.
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.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
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.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
Carpe diem.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.
Success is the child of audacity.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
Leadership is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the person who fails.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Each work has to pass through these stages - ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood.
We reap what we sow - we are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing, those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind ? We make our own destiny.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished by how much the old man had learned in 7 years.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
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.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
Faith can move mountains.
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.