Inspirational Quotes
We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish.
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.
Kindness is a language which the dumb can speak, the deaf can understand.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
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.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
Winning isn't everything , it's the only thing.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders.
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
The great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
This life is a hard fact, work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine, no matter, the soul is stronger. I have seen in life those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step, those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace, and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
I know god will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
When a man finds no peace within himself, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
Without a general an army is lost.
Love sees roses without thorns.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind
Times of great calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
I am the captain of my soul.
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.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
One of the things I keep learning is that the secret of being happy is doing things for other people.
With malice toward none, with charity for all.
You can have anything you want ? if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind, the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind.
Carpe diem.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
The most important part of being a leader is maintaining the desire to keep on learning. That means learning about yourself, about your peers, and about the people you serve.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
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.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
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.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.
For myself, I am an optimist -- it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.
The secret to happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
Growth in personality occurs as a consequence of meeting conflicts and impasses head on, and reconciling them. Interpersonal conflicts and impasses constitute problems which require solutions so that a satisfying relationship may be maintained. Whenever a person encounters a problem in his everyday living, he is obliged to vary his behavior until he discovers some mode of responding which is successful in achieving a solution.
He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in god. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
As a principle-centered person you try to stand apart from the emotion of the situation and from other factors that would act on you, and evaluate the options. Looking at the balanced whole -- the work needs, the family needs, the other needs that may be involved, and the possible implications of the various alternatives -- you'll try to come up with the best solution taking all factors into consideration.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal.
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
Kindness is always fashionable.
We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
O Captain ! My Captain ! our fearful trip is done.
Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen.
Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting ; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
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.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best. You very often get it.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Unfortunately, most of the students in martial art are conformers. The student seldom learns to depend upon himself for expression. Instead, he faithfully or blindly follows an instructor, the authority figure, and his instructor's imposed pattern. That way, the student feels he is no longer alone and finds security in mass imitation. However, what is nurtured is the dependent mind rather than independent inquiry, which is so essential to genuine understanding. So through daily conditioning a student will probably be skilled according to a pattern, however, he will not come to understand himself.