Inspirational Quotes
The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
It may be all right to be content with what you have, never with what you are.
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.
The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.
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.
They can because they think they can.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
The Athenians, alarmed at the internal decay of their Republic, asked Demosthenes what to do. His reply: Do not do what you are doing now.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity, a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity.
Ability is sexless.
The currency of success is not money. It’s minutes. What percentage of my life do I spend doing what I want, in the way I want? That’s true success.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
If you have to drive people that hard to do their job, then you've either got the wrong people, or you've got the right people doing the wrong job.
Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
Flacco when asked whether fourth quarter performance defines a quarterback - "I have no idea. If we win the Super Bowl, I guess it will be".
If money is your hope for independence, you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability.
There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
A goal properly set is halfway reached.
Don't water your weeds.
It's not about the money. It's about what you feel you deserve.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
I'm a bit of a P.T Barnum. I make stars out of everyone.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
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.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Education is one of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
Don't think it, ink it.
People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
Great men are not always wise.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
What this power is I cannot say. All I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.
They can because they think they can.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
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.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
If it is to be it is up to me.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
Before we can forgive one another, we must understand one another
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.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
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.
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.
Most ball games are lost, not won.
It is not the job of the general to be winning. It is his job to win.
Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
Are we to love only those who deserve our love ? Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you , that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven.
Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
No man is free who is not master of himself.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
No involvement, no commitment.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those one has chosen to attain their full worth.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
Embrace that small things lead to big things.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.