Inspirational Quotes
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
Follow your dreams.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
You're as old as you behave.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
If you would create something, you must be something.
Nothing succeeds like success.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
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.
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. It is not something to be waited for, but rather something to be achieved.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
Success is achieved by those who try and keep trying with a positive mental attitude.
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.
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us, it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
When people are like each other they tend to like each other.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
I light my candle from their torches.
Live with passion.
Perspective is in the quiet of a walk, the wisdom of a good book, or the harmony of your favorite music. I find it sometimes in the slow peace of fishing.
Let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
Excellence is more fun than mediocrity.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
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.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
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.
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
Wisdom is more precious than rubies.
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration