Inspirational Quotes
Self-knowledge is the basis of JKD because it is effective, not only for the individuals martial art, but also for his life as a human being.
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
Except and expect positive things and that is what you will receive.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
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.
Practice makes perfect.
Never, never, never give up.
I can change. I can live out my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
My parents told me that I could do and be anything I really wanted. I believed them.
An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast, a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
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.
Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.
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.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Now is the only time there is. Make your now wow, your minutes miracles, and your days pay. Your life will have been magnificently lived and invested, and when you die you will have made a difference.
God doesn't make junk.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
The older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
Begin with the end in mind.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.
Tell everyone what you want to do and someone will want to help you do it.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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.
The ready back gets all the loads.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. quotes
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
There is time for everything.
No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.
For a person to build a rich and rewarding life for himself there are certain qualities and bits of knowledge that he needs to acquire. There are also things, harmful attitudes, superstitions, and emotions that he needs to chip away. A person needs to chip away everything that doesn't look like the person he or she most wants to become.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
All of the most successful human beings I've know were inwardly at war with themselves. Their turmoil was at least as great as our own, and sometimes greater. What distinguished these leaders was not some inner peace but rather how they had learned to organize their lives around a noble ambition and to focus on it.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
To live for results would be to sentence myself to continuous frustration. My only sure reward is in my actions and not from them.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
Happiness is a state of activity.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Every life form seems to strive to its maximum except human beings. How tall will a tree grow ? As tall as it possibly can. Human beings, on the other hand, have been given the dignity of choice. You can choose to be all or you can choose to be less. Why not stretch up to the full measure of the challenge and see what all you can do ?
If the going is real easy, beware, you may be headed down hill.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
No great man ever complains of want of opportunities.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
It is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you ; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
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.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
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.
To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people And the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure The betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead, his eyes are closed.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
Great changes may not happen right away, but with effort even the difficult may become easy.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
One mistake will never kill you. The same mistake over and over again will.
God is merciful to those whom he sees struggling heart and soul for realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that his grace will never come.
In order to succeed you must fail so that you know what not to do the next time.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
As a man thinketh in his heart so is he.
Obstacles are great incentives.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
You can't make an omelet without breaking eggs.