Inspirational Quotes
Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Seek first to understand, then be understood
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.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
Always bear in mind, that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
In this world a man must either be an anvil or hammer.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
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.
If a man can realize his divine nature with the help of an image, would it be right to call that a sin ? Nor, even when he has passed that stage, should he call it an error. Man is not traveling from error to truth, but from truth to truth, from lower to higher truth. To him all the religions from the lowest fetishism to the highest absolutism, mean so many attempts of the human soul to grasp and realize the infinite, each determined by the conditions of its birth and association, and each of these marks a stage of progress, and every soul is a young eagle soaring higher and higher, gathering more and more strength till it reaches the glorious sun.
Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time, it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
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
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.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
I don't like the man. I must get to know him better.
Excellence is the result of caring more than others think wise, risking more than other's think safe, dreaming more than others think practical, and expecting more than others think possible.
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled , through sickness we recognize the value of health, through evil, the value of good, through hunger, the value of food, through exertion, the value of rest.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young ?
This is the first day, of the rest of your life.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I find out what the world needs, then I proceed to invent.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Remove failure as an option.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
The aims and ideals that move us are generated by imagination. But they are not made out of imaginary stuff. They are made out of the hard stuff of the world of physical and social experience.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
We are what and where we are because we have first imagined it.
There are few, if any, jobs in which ability alone is sufficient. Needed, also, are loyalty, sincerity, enthusiasm and team play.
When a problem comes along, study it until you are completely knowledgeable. Then find that weak spot, break the problem apart, and the rest will be easy.
Wherever we look upon this earth, the opportunities take shape within the problems.
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure. The greater part of the men being six feet high.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
You are today where your thoughts have brought
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.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
People will exercise great effort and creativity to make our plan work, and sometimes expend just as much effort and creativity to make your plan fail.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Let's roll.
The time is always right to do what is right.
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
I light my candle from their torches.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean , if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
He who hesitates is lost !
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.