Inspirational Quotes
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
It means a great deal to those who are oppressed to know that they are not alone. And never let anyone tell you that what you are doing is insignificant. Bishop
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as painted, or composed music or wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Grow deep - not just tall.
Until we take how we see ourselves (and how we see others) into account, we will be unable to understand how others see and feel about themselves and their world. Unaware, we will project our intentions on their behavior and call ourselves objective.
Those who laugh - last!!
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Ideas without action are worthless.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking, the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
There is no education like adversity.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
May you live all the days of your life.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
I think therefore I am
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
Your level of brilliance will determine the size of your opportunities in life.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
The only truly happy man is always a fighting optimist. Optimism includes not only altruism but also social responsibility, social courage and objectivity.
If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
This is as true in everyday life as it is in battle we are given one life and the decision is ours whether to wait for circumstances to make up our mind, or whether to act, and in acting, to live.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
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.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.
Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
Don't let your fears stand in the way of your dreams !
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
No one is so poor as an ignorant person.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
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.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
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.
If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
No man is happy who does not think himself so.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness , it is generally the by- product of other activities.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
Who is blind ? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb ? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor ? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich ? He who is happy with his lot.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.