Inspirational Quotes
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
If opportunity doesn't knock build a door.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
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 you realize how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Well done is better than well said.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
Platitudes ? Yes, there are platitudes. Platitudes are there because they are true.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
The past does not equal the future.
Don't water your weeds.
When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
We have not yet begun to fight.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
Those who are fired with an enthusiastic idea and who allow it to take hold and dominate their thoughts find that new worlds open for them. As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
Success leaves clues.
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.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
Like snowflakes, my Christmas memories gather and dance each beautiful, unique and too soon gone.
You can do anything you put your mind to.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
The earth is enjoyed by heroes, this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, I have no fear.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Ability is sexless.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
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 definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
Take control of your consistent emotions and begin to consciously and deliberately reshape your daily experience of life.
Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of : Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, and the full fledged devotion to god. Faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers.
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Life does not happen to us, it happens from us.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
A wise man makes his own decisions , an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
I'm willing when time permits to honestly express or to open myself to you, to act as a sort of sign pole for a traveler.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
Follow your dreams.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.