Inspirational Quotes
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Living a life of integrity is one of the greatest missions we can undertake.
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.
I have realized god sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see god in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
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.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
Nothing succeeds like success.
I want everyone to be the way I strive to become -- to be himself in his truth. Do not follow me, follow yourself ! is the existential challenge. Self-being awakens self-being but does not force itself on it.
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
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.
Honesty pays, but it doesn't seem to pay enough to suit some people.
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.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity , an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
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.
A bold onset is half the battle.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
Roll with the punches.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
If you want to get the best out of a man, you must look for the best that is in him.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head -- that's assault, not leadership.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
For with god all things are possible.
The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
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.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.