Inspirational Quotes
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
Never discourage anyonewho continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
When we won't consider suggestions, we reject our own potential - but we have a right to expect people to be tactful.
Children are all foreigners.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.
Nothing succeeds like success.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus and apply your mental and physical energies to the problem at hand - without growing weary. Because such thinking is often difficult, there seems to be no limit to which some people will go to avoid the effort and labor that is associated with it.
There has never been a statue erected to honor a critic.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right.
In order to grasp the reality, we must see the possibilities. In the present, a formulation of the possibilities is the area in which I gain uncertainty concerning what I decide, without a vision of the possibilities, I act blindly, only a knowledge of the possibilities enables me to know what I am actually doing.
The most elusive and desired quality of leadership is vision. Vision is the perfume of the mind.
Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.
We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me I lift me lamp beside the golden door.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives : where we focus our attention.
Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Nothing is more validating and affirming than feeling understood. And the moment a person begins feeling understood, that person becomes far more open to influence and change.
Give all to love; obey thy heart.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense.
Men who have attained things worth having in this world have worked while others idled, have persevered while others gave up in despair, have practiced early in life the valuable habits of self-denial, industry, and singleness of purpose. As a result, they enjoy in later life the success so often erroneously attributed to good luck.
Time is really the only capital that any human being has and the thing that he can least afford to waste or lose.
A gentle hand may lead even an elephant by a single hair.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
The "Inside-Out" approach to personal and self , even more fundamentally, to start with the most inside part of self - with your paradigms, your character, and your motives. The inside-out approach says that private victories precede public victories, that making and keeping promises to ourselves precedes making and keeping promises to others. It says it is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated , you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
Things do not change we change.
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
He didn't get all of those injuries from a fall.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
We have not yet begun to fight.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in ; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day ; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask, Where have I gone wrong ? Then a voice says to me, This is going to take more than one night.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
All that is real in me is god. All that is real in god is I. The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it , if you can dream it, you can become it.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
It is never too late to be what we might have been
Passion is the genesis of genius.
A good general not only sees the way to victory , he also knows when victory is impossible.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
Learning is definitely not mere imitation or the ability to accumulate and conform to fixed knowledge. Learning is a constant process of discovery and never a concluding one. In JKD we begin not by accumulation but by discovering the cause of our ignorance, and oftentimes this involves a shedding process. Truth will not come until we have come to understand personally the whole process of the working of our being. After all, ultimately, knowledge in martial art simply means self-knowledge, and JKD can become intelligible only in the vigorous and constant process of self-inquiry and self-discovery.
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.
I think therefore I am
Smile ! and the world will smile with you !
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
The United States, and other advanced nations, will someday be able to produce instruments of death so terrible the world will be in abject terror of itself and its ability to end civilization... . Such war-making weapons should be developed - but only for purposes of discovery and experimentation
As a mother of teenagers, do you know how many times I picked up the phone to apologize to my own mother ?
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.