Inspirational Quotes
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
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.
Be all you can be.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Silence is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
I feel I have this great creative and spiritual force within me that is greater than faith, greater than ambition, greater than confidence, greater than determination, greater than vision. It is all these combined. Whether it is a godhead or not, I feel this great force, this untapped power, this dynamic something within me. This feeling defies description, and there is no experience with which this feeling may be compared. It is something like a strong emotion mixed with faith, but a lot stronger.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
There may be peace without joy, and joy without peace, but the two combined make happiness
I'm proud to be around these men. Bunch of bosses right here. Bosses on 3!. 1..2..3 Bosses !
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them, a desire, a dream, a vision.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.
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.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
Don't be hard on yourself. Embrace your journey with kindness and patience, recognizing that every step, even the small ones, is a part of your growth.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way.
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.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
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''.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
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.
You may be on the right track, but if you just sit there you'll get run over.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
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.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
If you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade !
Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth.
This is a great fact : strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal , weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
This too, shall pass.
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.
Be the best that you can be.
Hell is the knowledge of opportunity lost, the place where the man I am comes face to face with the man I might have been.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
Happiness itself does not stay -- only moments of happiness do.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
Well done is better than well said.
Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
Your talent is god's gift to you.
It's never too late.
This attachment of love to god is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages.
Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
Come to the edge. We can't. We're afraid. We can't. We will fall ! Come to the edge. And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
They can because they think they can.
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.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.
Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on "seems". Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
The storm also beats on the house that is built on the rock.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word fearlessness.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Those who laugh - last!!