Inspirational Quotes
He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
You can do what you want to do.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there", stop yourself. That thought is the problem.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
Fortune favors the brave.
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want and do.
It's not about the money. It's about what you feel you deserve.
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation by thinking once or twice a week.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Courage is not a virtue of value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundation that underlies and gives reality to all other virtues and personal values. Without courage our love pales into mere dependency. Without courage our fidelity becomes conformism.
All men are created equal. Government by consent of the governed. Give me liberty or give me death. And those are not just clever words, and those are not just empty theories.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
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.
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
Your belief determines your action and your action determines your results, but first you have to believe.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
It is the surmounting of difficulties that make heroes.
Don't call me a saint - I don't want to be dismissed that easily.
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
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.
Each person born into this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
Great music and art are earthly wonders, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Make the second effort your second nature.
The strength of the heart comes from the soundness of the faith.
The greater a man is in power above others, the more he ought to excel them in virtue. None ought to govern who is not better than the governed.
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
I have learned that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
Never Quit.
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.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been' .
The strongest among the weak is the one who doesn't forget his weaknesses.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
Everything that is good from others, bring it in, and in your own way absorb it, do not become others.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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.
The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams. Where there are vivid dreams repeated, they become goals. Goals become the action plans and game plans that winners dwell on in intricate detail, knowing that achievement is almost automatic when the goal becomes an inner commitment. The response to the challenges of life -- purpose -- is the healing balm that enables each of us to face up to adversity and strife.
Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
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.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.