Inspirational Quotes
I never had a policy, I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
Things do not change we change.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they shall never cease to be amused.
Just because we increase the speed of information doesn't mean we can increase the speed of decisions. Pondering, reflecting and ruminating are undervalued skills in our culture.
There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.
Rough spots sharpen our performance. And more often than not, obstacles can be turned into advantages. You just can't let your disappointment get in the way.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal, nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
For those who have seen the Earth from space, and for the hundreds and perhaps thousands more who will, the experience most certainly changes your perspective. The things that we share in our world are far more valuable than those which divide us.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
In the arena of human life the honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action
I live a very dull life here, indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
I do not believe in styles anymore. I do not believe that there is such a thing as the Chinese way of fighting or the Japanese way of fighting, or any other way of fighting, because unless a human being has three arms and four legs, there can be no different form of fighting. To me, ultimately, martial art means honestly expressing yourself.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
Education means inspiring someones mind, not just filling their head.
Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
He who hesitates is lost !
Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
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.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
Some men see things the way they are and ask, Why ? I dream things that never were, and ask Why not ?
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
I am not sure I should have dared to start , but I am sure that I should not have dared to stop.
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.
Every human heart is human.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Anything is possible.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Don't look back - forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience - then alone can great deeds be accomplished.
Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
The truth is more important than the facts.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
A dream unrealized is a dream imprisoned by that enemy of all enemies - the fear of failure. Set that you will make it happen ! -
Intelligence without ambition is like a bird without wings.
There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
Don't fear, just live right.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
Live your life and forget your age.
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.
The way to find out about your happiness is to keep your mind on those moments when you feel most happy, when you really are happy -- not excited, not just thrilled, but deeply happy. This requires a little bit of self-analysis. What is it that makes you happy ? Stay with it, no matter what people tell you. This is what I call 'following your bliss'. If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Wherever you are -- if you are following your bliss, you are enjoying that refreshment, that life within you, all the time.
To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
It is discouraging how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit.
Whatever you need more of is what you need to tithe some. quotes
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.
The dove is my emblem. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
Well done is better than well said.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Great men are not always wise.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. Winston Churchill When I want to read a novel, I write one.
If one advances confidently in the direction of their goals and endeavors to live the life that they have imagined, they'll meet with success unexpected in common hours.