Inspirational Quotes
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
A bold onset is half the battle.
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
Grow deep - not just tall.
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.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
So whether or not we can get together, remember well that art lives where absolute freedom is. With all the training thrown to nowhere, with a mind perfectly unaware of its own working, with the self vanishing nowhere the art of JKD attains its perfection.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun more.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
It not knowing what to do, it's doing what you know.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you will land among the stars.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
Your attitude determines your altitude.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
They alone live, who live for others.
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.
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
For with god all things are possible.
When you arrive at your future, will you blame your past ?
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
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.
Procrastination is opportunities natural assassin.
Knowing means to penetrate through the surface, in order to arrive at the roots, and hence the causes, knowing means to "see" reality in its nakedness. Knowing does not mean to be in the possession of the truth , it means to penetrate the surface and to strive critically and actively in order to approach truth ever more closely.
Come forth into the light of things , Let nature be your Teacher.
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.
Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moments you reject all help, are you free. Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life.
Better late than never.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
The best things in life are not things.
Hope springs eternal.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
Wealth belongs to the person who enjoys it and not to the one who keeps it.
Don't fear, just live right.
Busier than a cat covering up shit on a tile floor!
If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Any man who selects a goal in life which can be fully achieved has already defined his own limitations.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
The truth is more important than the facts.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
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.
Whatever happens, take responsibility !
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
He who hesitates is lost !