Inspirational Quotes
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
Know thyself was the inscription over the Oracle at Delphi. And it is still the most difficult task any of us faces. But until you truly know yourself, strengths and weaknesses, know what you want to do and why you want to do it, you can not succeed in any but the most superficial sense of the word. The leader never lies to himself, especially about himself, knows his flaws as well as his assets, and deals with them directly. You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and why you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
If people find fault with you and try to put you into bad light, wrongly slandering and vilifying you, just step back and observe yourself. Don't harbor any dislike, don't enter into it any contests, and don't get upset, angry, or resentful. Just cut right through it and be as if you never or saw it. Eventually malevolent pests will disappear of themselves. If you contend with them, then a bad name will bounce back and forth with never an end in sight.
The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.
Courage is a moral quality , it is not a chance gift of nature like an aptitude for games. It is a cold choice between two alternatives, the fixed resolve not to quit , an act of renunciation which must be made not once but many times by the power of the will. Courage is will power.
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.
If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.
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.
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
He that has done nothing has known nothing.
Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Remember happiness doesn't depend on who you are or what you have, it depends solely upon what you think.
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
Success is never ending, failure is never final.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves ; and under a just God, cannot long retain it.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell'em, Certainly I can ! - and get busy and find out how to do it
Nothing is so strong as gentleness, and nothing is so gentle as true strength.
The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.
If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
God doesn't make junk.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.
What you cannot enforce, Do not command.
Roll with the punches.
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.
Oh, to be free from the stifling pressures of life to rest, a peaceful slumber that will rejuvenate my soul
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem, like lions.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
Accept challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
Experience is not what happens to a man, it's what a man does with what happens to him.
If we all tired to make other peoples paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
He who conquers himself has won a greater victory than he who conquers a city.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.
If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it.
Let thy words be few.
Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us.
Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them !
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind, therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest.
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.
All or our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. -
Ideas won't keep, something must be done about them.
I maintained my edge by always being a student, you will always have something new to learn.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
A ruler should be slow to punish and swift to reward.
Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that !
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in