Inspirational Quotes
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
Do not wait for leaders, do it alone, person to person.
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
After every happiness comes misery, they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature, both are chains -- one iron, one gold , behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change , but the nature of the atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it, only wash away the dross and see it.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.
You don't use a hammer to tighten a screw.
I want to know God's thoughts ; the rest are details.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
Anything is possible.
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
All work is empty save when there is love.
Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.
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.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
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.
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
A dream is simply reality waiting to happen.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
If you advance confidently in the direction of your dreams and endeavor to leave the life which you have imagined, you will you will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
They are able because they think they are able.
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.
The whole universe is only the self with variations, one tune made bearable by variations. Sometimes there are discords, but they only make the subsequent harmony more perfect. In this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true, this I have learnt after suffering all my life, all else is mere moonshine.
Am I motivated by what I really want out of life or am I mass-motivated ?
All men dream, but unequally. Those that dream at night in the dusty recesses of their minds awake the next day to find that their dreams were just vanity. But those who dream during the day with their eyes wide open are dangerous men , they act out their dreams to make them reality.
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.
In all the other movies that I’ve done, as well as my life. You know, I’ve been tagged. I guess we all have been tagged, right? We’re all alive. Right here, right now! This is happening. We’re alive!
From what we get, we can make a living, what we give, however makes a life.
Hope springs eternal.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
There are many who's tongues might govern multitudes, if they could govern their tongues.
There is no education like adversity.
Positive attitudes come in unlimited quantities. Everybody can have one free !
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
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.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.
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.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
Passion is the genesis of genius.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
It's the investor who is risky, not the investment.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
Its obvious that we don't know one millionth of one percent about anything.
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance, and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Build a dream and the dream will build you.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
Many people seem to think that success in one area can compensate for failure in other areas. But can it really ? True effectiveness requires balance.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Average investors are on the outside trying to look into the inside of the company or property they are investing in.
An executive is a person who always decides , sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
You can never be happy at the expense of the happiness of others.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
You can not escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
After all is said and done, there is usually more said than done.