Inspirational Quotes
As you live your values, your sense of identity, integrity, control, and inner-directedness will infuse you with both exhilaration and peace. You will define yourself from within, rather than by people's opinions or by comparisons to others.
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.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
A life lived in fear is a life half lived.
Grow deep - not just tall.
Better late than never.
Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Fractures well cured make us more strong.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Respect the past in the full measure of its desserts, but do not make the mistake of confusing it with the present nor seek in it the ideals of the future.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Insist on yourself, never imitate. Every great man is unique.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
Be the best that you can be.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression, in order that every man present his views without penalty, there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
I assume everybody thinks they're a top-five quarterback. I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.
He who lives without discipline dies without honor.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
We have a responsibility in our time, as others have had in theirs, not to be prisoners of history but to shape history, a responsibility to fill the role of path-finder, and to build with others a global network of purpose and law.
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
Self-knowledge is the basis of JKD because it is effective, not only for the individuals martial art, but also for his life as a human being.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insolvuble problems.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
Leadership is much more an art, a belief, a condition of the heart, than a set of things to do. The visible signs of artful leadership are expressed, ultimately, in its practice.
Happiness is a state of activity.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
After every happiness comes misery, they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature, both are chains -- one iron, one gold , behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change , but the nature of the atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it, only wash away the dross and see it.
Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is.
How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives.
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Actions speak louder than words.
The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human body, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.
Nothing succeeds like success.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
Find and use your passion, and you'll have a great career. Don't do it, you won't. It's as simple as that.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Hunker down.
Find the good -- and praise it.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg ? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
An Arabian proverb says there are four sorts of men: He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool, shun him. He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple, teach him. He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep--wake him. He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise, follow him.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
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.
A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.