Inspirational Quotes
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
Strength is life, weakness is death. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
Do what you love and the money will follow
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
We have not yet begun to fight.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
Well done is better than well said.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
I keep my ideals, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you've collected a lot of empty yesterdays.
Learning is definitely not mere imitation or the ability to accumulate and conform to fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery and never a concluding one. In JKD we begin not by accumulation but by discovering the cause of our ignorance, and oftentimes this involves a shedding process. Truth will not come until we have come to understand personally the whole process of the working of our being. After all, ultimately, knowledge in martial art simply means self-knowledge, and JKD can become intelligible only in the vigorous and constant process of self-inquiry and self-discovery.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
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 will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
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.
Never say more than is necessary.
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
You have to decide what your highest priorities are and have the courage -- pleasantly, smilingly, non-apologetically -- to say 'no' to other things. And the way you do that is by having a bigger 'yes' burning inside. The enemy of the 'best' is often the 'good. '
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
You become what you think about.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
Follow your dreams.
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.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
If to do good were easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.
May you live all the days of your life.
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
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.
The memory of my mother will always be a blessing to me.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
You. too, can determine what you want. You can decide on your major objectives, targets, aims, and destination. quotes
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
Results ? Why, man, I have gotten lots of results ! If I find ways something won't work, I haven't failed
The life which is unexamined is not worth living
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.
If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
Bygones are bygones. Life's too short. There's so much more we've all got to do.
Leaders are people who are able to express themselves fully, they know who they are, what their strengths and weaknesses are, and how to fully deploy their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses. They also know what they want, why they want it, and how to communicate what they want to others, in order to gain compensation and support. Finally, they know how to achieve their goals. The key to full self-expression is understanding one's self and the world, and the key to understanding is learning -- from one's own life and experience.
The best things in life are not things.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
It's not about the money. It's about what you feel you deserve.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.