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Inspirational Quotes

The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

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.

Bruce Lee

When we place blame, we give away our power.

Greg Anderson

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.

Albert Einstein

Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.

Harvey Mackay

Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.

David Bly

When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Alexander Graham Bell

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

Albert Einstein

Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.

John P. Strelecky

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Napoleon Hill

There's always a way - if you're committed.

Anthony Robbins

Old love does not rust.

Estonian Proverb

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Tell me your friends, and I'll tell you who you are.

Assyrian Proverb

Well done is better than well said.

Benjamin Franklin

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

Marianne Williamson

Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?

Josh Hinds

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal

Earl Nightingale

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.

Max DePree

If not us, who, if not now, when ?

Unknown

For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.

Anthony Robbins

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.

Yusuf Tara

Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.

Mingjiao

Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.

Aristotle

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.

Arnold Glasgow

When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.

Norman Vincent Peale

I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.

Winston Churchill

Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.

Horace

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.

John P. Strelecky

It is no sin to attempt and fail. The only sin is to not make the attempt.

Suellen Fried

You are what you think you are.

Bob Richards

None are homely who smile.

Robert Half

If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.

Harvey Mackay

I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.

Albert Einstein

You create your reality.

Unknown

Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.

Anthony Robbins

The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Dale Carnegie

Every time we open our mouths, men look into our minds.

Anonymous

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Charles A. Beard

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.

Jim Rohn

There are essentially two things that will make you wiser the books you read and the people you meet.

Charles Tremendous Jones

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

Nelson Mandela

What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.

Baiyun

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.

Albert Einstein

Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I swore never to be silent whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Elie Wiesel

Inch by inch, it's a cinch.

Robert H. Schuller

From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.

Abraham Maslow

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

Jesus

When I asked god for strength He gave me difficult situations to face When I asked god for brain & brawn He gave me puzzles in life to solve When I asked god for happiness He showed me some unhappy people When I asked god for wealth He showed me how to work hard When I asked god for favors He showed me opportunities to work hard When I asked god for peace He showed me how to help others God gave me nothing I wanted He gave me everything I needed

Swami Vivekananda

When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

John Quincy Adams

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.

J. Petit Senn

One does evil enough when one does nothing good.

German Proverb

I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.

Albert Einstein

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

Margaret Thatcher

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

George Eliot

I am poor and naked but I am the chief of a nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.

Red Cloud

The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.

George Catlin

You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.

Galileo Galilei

Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.

William Yeats

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.

Henry David Thoreau

There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.

Azim Premji

Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.

Swami Vivekananda

Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.

Bill Blackman

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Albert Einstein

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

Thomas Paine

Stopping at third base adds no more runs than striking out.

Anonymous

Instill great values in your children today and your grandchildren will prosper tomorrow.

Christy Borgeld

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

Napoleon Hill

The search for someone to blame is always successful.

Robert Half

Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.

Brian Tracy

If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can't buy.

Unknown

Many hands make light work.

Proverb

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Napoleon Hill

Give a man a fish and he will eat for the day, teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime.

Chinese Proverb

Misfortunes often sharpen the genius.

Ovid

"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"

Robert Schuller

Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.

Indian Proverb

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.

Philip Armour

You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.

Unknown

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.

Earl Nightingale

What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.

Proverb

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Robert H. Schuller

The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller