Inspirational Quotes
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded
The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.
Good habits are as addictive as bad habits, and a lot more rewarding.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.
The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-ness.
Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.
It is absurd that a man should rule others, who can not rule himself.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
Think and grow rich.
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
Without continuous personal development, you are now all that you will ever become, and hell starts when the person you are meets the person you could have been.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
First comes thought, then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans, then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
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.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
You become what you think about.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness ?
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.
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel, its poverty by how little.
If you would create something, you must be something.
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
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
If I can line up the people who, back through the ages, have gone at life in ways I greatly admire, then I can feel their strength supporting me, all their standards and values pointing the way in which I am to go.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune.
I want it said of me by those who knew me best ; that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace and not of war.
Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractionsthe little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment in the disguise of a playful raillery, and the countless other infinitesimals of pleasurable thought and genial feeling.
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
A lie has speed, but truth has endurance.
Change comes from within.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Strike while the iron is hot.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
We have only one reality, and that is here and now. What we miss by our evasions will never return, but if we squander ourselves, then too we lose being. Each day is precious a moment can be everything.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
The handgun would not be my choice of weapon if I knew I was going to a fight. ...I'd choose a rifle, a shotgun, an RPG or an atomic bomb instead.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
Failure ? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks.
Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.
To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.
All power is within you. You can do anything and everything. Believe in that. Do not believe that you are weak, do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. Stand up and express the divinity within you. Truth is eternal.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.