Inspirational Quotes
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse , however if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Say not, "I have found the truth" but rather, "I have found a truth".
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
Success is dependent upon the glands - sweat glands.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
Success comes from taking the initiative and following up... persisting... eloquently expressing the depth of your love. What simple action could you take today to produce a new momentum toward success in your life ?
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for ?
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
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.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
The ready back gets all the loads.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
Within us all there are wells of thought and dynamos of energy which are not suspected until emergencies arise. Then oftentimes we find that it is comparatively simple to double or treble our former capacities and to amaze ourselves by the results achieved. Quotas, when set up for us by others, are challenges which goad us on to surpass ourselves. The outstanding leaders of every age are those who set up their own quotas and constantly achieve them.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
May you live all the days of your life.
Know thyself.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
Every artist was first an amateur.
The successful man is the average man, focused.
Example sheds a genial ray which men are apt to borrow, so first improve yourself today, and then your friends tomorrow.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
If you think you can, or you think you can't, you're probably right.
A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds, it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts : what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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.
Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, What happened ?
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
The book you don't read cant help.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
Don't hide your light under a bushel.
Personal leadership is not a singular experience. It is, rather, the ongoing process of keeping your vision and values before you and aligning your life to be congruent with those most important things.
Indecision is the seedling of fear.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
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 greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.