Inspirational Quotes
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
End your day by privately looking directly into your eyes in the mirror and saying, 'I love you ! ' Do this for thirty days and watch how you transform.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
Every dog has his day.
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
Take heed : you do not find what you do not seek.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
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.
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
Our minds are as different as our faces we are all traveling to one destination, happiness, but few are going by the same road.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
Live with passion !
Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace.
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.
Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
Ideas... they have the power
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
I believe that it is better to learn from the diverse people around us than to try in vain to emulate them, better to be a teacher than a role model. As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.
Winners never quit and quitters never win !
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
There is no education like adversity.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease
We come to beginnings only at the end.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.
You are what you think you are.
It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
Your most expensive advice is the free advice you receive from your financially struggling friends and relatives.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
I do not believe in styles anymore. I do not believe that there is such a thing as the Chinese way of fighting or the Japanese way of fighting, or any other way of fighting, because unless a human being has three arms and four legs, there can be no different form of fighting. To me, ultimately, martial art means honestly expressing yourself.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes-- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds'--can you help others do the same.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
We must be the change we wish to see.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.
A life lived in fear is half lived.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
A man builds a fine house ; and now he has a master, and a task for life ; he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
Hunker down.
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.
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.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
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.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Be Here Now.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.