Inspirational Quotes
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Plan your progress carefully , hour-by hour, day-by-day, month-by-month. Organized activity and maintained enthusiasm are the wellsprings of your power. Planning for happiness is rarely successful. Happiness just happens.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
Some people enter our lives and leave almost instantly. Others stay, and forge such an impression on our heart and soul, we are changed forever.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
But inaction itself is a kind of action, and it has consequences. Consistently and absolutely maintained, inaction would necessarily lead to swift ruin , it would be a form of suicide. A refusal to enter into the world is a refusal to meet the challenge of reality which darkly demands that I dare and find out what will happen. In my situation I bear responsibility for what occurs because I do not intervene , if I can do something and I don't do it, I am guilty of the consequences of my inaction.
Think and grow rich.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
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.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
Ability is sexless.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
In the court of basketball, there are no objections only rejections.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure, it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
Self delusion is pulling in your stomach when you step on the scales.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving ; they make mistakes, but they do not quit.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
We have no simple problems or easy decisions after kindergarten.
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.
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
Seeing yourself as you want to be is the key to personal growth.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
Anything in life worth having is worth working for.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration ?
Censure is often useful, praise often deceitful.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
Better late than never.
The miracle is this the more we share, the more we have.
You're as old as you behave.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
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.
Tough times never last but tough people do.
Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness -- great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
The more we grow in love, virtue and holiness, the more we see love, virtue and holiness outside.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
"I can't do it" never accomplished anything ; "I will try" has performed miracles.
There is no point at which you can say 'Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap.'
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
A way of life can not be successful so long as it is mere intellectual conviction. It must be deeply felt, deeply believed, dominant even in dreams.
One lie ruins a thousand truths.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Only those who do nothing at all make no mistakes but that would be a mistake.
Whatever good things we build end up building us.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.