Inspirational Quotes
There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control a firm resolve of a determined soul.
Leadership is power to endure an ongoing quest for information or influence not just actual triumphs like making profits or achieving stated objectives.
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
To be a champion, you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.
Predetermine the objectives you want to accomplish. Think big, act big and set out to accomplish big results.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
Nothing is predestined The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.
Now is wanted intense karma-yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary listener does not hear. quotes
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
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.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song !
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
May you live all the days of your life.
There is only one way to happiness, and that is to cease worrying things which are beyond the power of our will.
Go as far as you can see and when you get there, you will always be able to see farther.
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
Many of life's failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
You are made from the same energy source that has created the oceans, the forests, the mountains, the valleys and all the stars in the sky. So tell me again, why you don't have the strength and power to create whatever you desire?
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
Change comes from within.
Are great things ever done smoothly ? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
A life lived with integrity -- even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.
Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.
Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life- changing difference
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
You become what you think about.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
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.
Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Roll with the punches.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Life's most soothing things are a child's goodnight and sweet music.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
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.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
Every shot you don't take is a guaranteed miss.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous, you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Work spares us from three evils boredom, vice, and need.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
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.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
Life is change, growth is optional. Choose wisely.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
Don't take no for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you can not hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was made to be wooed by youth.
Live your life and forget your age.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Rather than focusing on things and time, focus on preserving and enhancing relationships and on accomplishing results.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
It's your attitude not your aptitude that determines your altitude.
You always succeed in producing a result.