Inspirational Quotes
Inspiration and genius -- one and the same.
Lives most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others ?
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.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
He who has great power should use it lightly.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
If you don't like something, change it, if you can't change it, change your attitude.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
The ability to concentrate and to use your time well is everything if you want to succeed in business or in anything else, for that matter.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Those who laugh - last!!
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
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.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon- instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.
Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.
Thou love life ? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff that life is made of.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.
Don't go through life, grow through life.
You become what you think about.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Success leaves clues.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
Your self-beliefs either support or undermine you.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like a thunderbolt.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
If you feel you have no faults there's another one.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Seldom does an individual exceed his own expectations.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
Pretty much everything will come to him who hustles while he waits. I believe that restlessness is discontent, and discontent is merely the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
The entire law is summed up in a single command, Love your neighbor as yourself.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.