Inspirational Quotes
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
I always try to turn my personal struggles into something helpful for others.
Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too can become great.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Live with passion.
Things do not change we change.
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.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
He who asks a question is a fool for five minutes. He who does not ask a question remains a fool forever.
All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
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.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential. They experience synergy only in small, peripheral ways in their lives. But creative experiences can be produced regularly, consistently, almost daily in people's lives. It requires enormous personal security and openness and a spirit of adventure.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
The important thing is this, to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are, for what we could become.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
You cannot antagonize and influence at the same time.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration
All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear. Are people so afraid ? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
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.
A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
No man can stand on top because he is put there.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
I never read a food column and think 'Wow I value your opinion' because everyone has an opinion now. What makes a columnist an expert? If you stay focused on your own goal, you'll be fine. It's when you start looking too far out that you're going to get lost.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
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.
Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
Unfortunately, most of the students in martial art are conformers. The student seldom learns to depend upon himself for expression. Instead, he faithfully or blindly follows an instructor, the authority figure, and his instructor's imposed pattern. That way, the student feels he is no longer alone and finds security in mass imitation. However, what is nurtured is the dependent mind rather than independent inquiry, which is so essential to genuine understanding. So through daily conditioning a student will probably be skilled according to a pattern, however, he will not come to understand himself.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
Truth fears no questions.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
I am the captain of my soul.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
Live your life and forget your age.
Ability is sexless.
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
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.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.