Inspirational Quotes
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
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 oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
So whether or not we can get together, remember well that art lives where absolute freedom is. With all the training thrown to nowhere, with a mind perfectly unaware of its own working, with the self vanishing nowhere the art of JKD attains its perfection.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
Whenever I get the energy to exercise, I sit down until it passes.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?
You are what you think you are.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
Optimists are right. So are pessimists. It's up to you to choose which you will be.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.
Keep your business affairs in your own hands. It's the only way to be happy.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
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.
Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out.
Our schools and are not teaching students to think. It is astonishing how many young people have difficulty in putting their brains definitely and systematically to work.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we can not practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
Embrace that it's ok to grow.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
Be all you can be.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
Every artist was first an amateur.