Inspirational Quotes
Fear nothing, for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons, all sins into experience.
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
Life is what you make it.
One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
"Every achiever I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me.'"
There is nothing to fear, but fear itself.
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
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.
If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
Happiness is a choice.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
I am again fairly settled down to the pleasant duties of an old fashioned Virginia house-keeper, steady as a clock, busy as a bee, and as cheerful as a cricket.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.
Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.
They can because they think they can.
Count it all joy, my brethren, when you meet various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
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.
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time
In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.
I know that many people feel that old age is a time to take it easy, but I compare my life now to being the last runner in a relay race. Would you have me slow down as I near the finish line ?
All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
No legacy is so rich as honesty.
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.
The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.
The secret of success is to do common things uncommonly well.
Get into a line that you will find to be a deep personal interest, something you really enjoy spending twelve to fifteen hours a day working at, and the rest of the time thinking about.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
The land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
People with goals succeed because they know where they're going.
Sow a thought, and you reap an act , Sow an act, and you reap a habit , Sow a habit, and you reap a character , Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
is the greatest gift of the mind , it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.
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''.
Thank god, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Change your thoughts, change your life.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.
Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
I have failed over and over again. That is why I succeed.
Ask for advice but do what you think is best.
Happiness is not a matter of events, it depends upon the tides of the mind.
Many hands make light work.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Don't fear, just live right.
Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. -
Where there is no wealth there is no poverty.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can.
There is no beauty but the beauty of action.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Without courage, all others virtues lose their meaning.
The "how" thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile "ifs".
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
The atmosphere of expectancy is the breeding ground for miracles.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor
Life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing , every day we ought to review our purpose, saying to ourselves, 'This day let me make a sound beginning
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.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Never stop learning. If you learn one new thing everyday, you will overcome 99% of your competition
The heart is wiser than the intellect.
Only when all contribute their firewood can they build up a strong fire.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
Some people plant in the spring and leave in the summer. If you're signed up for a season, see it through. You don't have to stay forever, but at least stay until you see it through.
What happens to a man is less significant than what happens within him.