Inspirational Quotes
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
Only those who are absolutely their true selves in this world can have pervading influence.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea.
We get to make a living , we give to make a life.
You have to think anyway, so why not think big ?
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
I never could have done without the habits of punctuality, order and diligence the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
Better late than never.
Practice makes perfect.
While we pursue happiness, we flee from contentment.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
If I'm ever on a life-support system I choose to be unplugged, but not until Im down to a size eight!
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success -- or are they holding you back ?
Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch-what make you go beyond the norm.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
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.
Use your gifts faithfully, and they shall be enlarged , practice what you know, and you shall attain to higher knowledge.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
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.
Success is the child of audacity.
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
When love and skill work together expect a masterpiece.
It is always your next move.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.
This is the beginning of a new day.
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
A bold onset is half the battle.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost , that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Carpe diem.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
I'm not here just to make a living, I'm here to make a difference.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
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.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it open.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
When one door closes another opens. But often we look so long so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year.
Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.