Inspirational Quotes
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
Love is a bird, she needs to fly.
The fire that warms us can also consume us, it is not the fault of the fire.
Many hands make light work.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Why should a man be moral ? Because this strengthens his will.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
When I exercise, I wear all black. Its like a funeral for my fat.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
Success leaves clues.
When I look around, I always learn something and that is to be always yourself. And to express yourself. To have faith in yourself. Do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it. Start from the very root of being, which is how can I be me?
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
There comes a moment when you have to stop revving up the car and shove it into gear.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
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.
Whenever we're afraid, its because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
No man or woman is an island. To exist just for yourself is meaningless. You can achieve the most satisfaction when you feel related to some greater purpose in life, something greater than yourself.
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
Let thy words be few.
No man is wise enough by himself.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
All work is empty save when there is love.
Do or do not, there is no try.
I am not overly impressed by the great names and reputations of those who might be trying to beat me to an invention... . Its their 'ideas' that appeal to me.
Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
I thought that training for the Olympics would be hardest thing I would ever have to do," former Olympic gymnast Jordyn Wieber said in court. "But the hardest thing I've ever had to do is process that I am a victim of Larry Nassar. But even though I'm a victim, I do not and will not live my life as one.
The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do.
Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
Where is there dignity unless there is honesty ?
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Fear is met and destroyed with courage. Again and again, when the struggle seems hopeless and all opportunity lost, some man or women with a little more courage, a little more effort, brings victory.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Never Quit.
Life can only be understood backwards , but it must be lived forwards.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.
If you would live your life with ease, do what you ought, not what you please.
When you get right down to the root of the meaning of the word 'succeed', you find it simply means to follow through.
The sun will come up tomorrow
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
The one thing that separates winners from losers is, winners take action!
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
The buck stops here.