Inspirational Quotes
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never !
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Seize the day.
Results come from constantly applying what you know, not just knowing.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything.
Let thy words be few.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
There is no greatness without a passion to be great, whether it's the aspiration of an athlete or an artist, a scientist, a parent, or a businessperson.
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.
Every sale has five basic obstacles : no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
All progress occurs because people dare to be different
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
The past does not equal the future.
One hundred percent of the shots you don't take don't go in.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
Let's not confuse hasty decisions with strength or intelligence. It's important to be decisive - after giving consideration that reflects the time you have and what's at stake.
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
There are millions of children today who don't attend school. However, education is the only way to get ahead in this country.
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.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
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.
The tapas and the other hard yogas that were practiced in other yugas do not work now. What is needed in this yuga is giving, helping others. Believe in yourself and the world will be at your feet.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
It is better to bind your children to you by a feeling of respect and by gentleness, than by fear.
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own mind.
When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
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.
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
Never Quit.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus ; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
Let's just go and win a (bleeping) game.
If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Nothing is more honorable than enlightenment, nothing is more beautiful than virtue.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, they will never come, nor for the best opportunities.
Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is.
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
That is a lesson for all life - face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them.
Take a chance ! All life is a chance. The man who goes the furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
Keep the Faith.
You can not plough a field by turning it over in your mind.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
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.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
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.
We always strive after what is forbidden, and desire the things refused us.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities.
The struggle of the mind to keep itself free from every sort of bondage -- to remain curious, open, unsatiated in all its relations with nature -- is tenfold more difficult than the cultivation of a stable, satisfying point of view, but a thousandfold more precious.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
To succeed you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
Laughter is the best medicine.
The real leader has no need to lead, he is content to point the way.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
Happiness can not be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.
If you want to be creative in your company, your career, your life, all it takes is one easy stepthe extra one. When you encounter a familiar plan, you just ask one question '' What ELSE could we do ? ''
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take
Never spend your money before you have it.
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.
Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practicing every day while they live.
Yesterday is but a dream, tomorrow but a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.