Inspirational Quotes
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
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.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
The power is detested, and miserable the life, of him who wishes to be feared rather than to be loved.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
After every happiness comes misery, they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature, both are chains -- one iron, one gold , behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change , but the nature of the atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it, only wash away the dross and see it.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
I have seen too much of the vanity of human affairs, to expect felicity from the splendid scenes of public life.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
Nothing succeeds like success.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
You are what you think you are.
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.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Ambrose Redmoon Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
Practice does not make perfect, perfect practice makes perfect.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
We aren't in an information age, we are in an entertainment age.
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Happiness is not having what you want, but wanting what you have.
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.
The book you don't read cant help.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
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.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
You haven't failed until you quit trying.
What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You can not make progress without making decisions.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about that you think.
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
Stand upon the self, only then can we truly love the world. Take a very high stand, knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
It is the level-headed man, the calm man, of good judgment and cool nerves, of great sympathy and love, who does good work and so does good to himself.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
I didn't have time to hire half my coaching staff. I didn't know any of the players by sight, but somehow we got through spring ball with the help of a couple of graduate assistants.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man. One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
is a choice to focus one's being in a certain way, to bring one's faith, commitment, creativity, and love into coordination with a particular value and purpose.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
This is the beginning of a new day.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
I light my candle from their torches.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have the capacity at the beginning.
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
Happiness is a state of mind.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.