Inspirational Quotes
Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
Giving people a little more than they expect is a good way to get back more than you'd expect.
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
There's always free cheese in the mouse traps, but the mice there ain't happy.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
All of us, in the flow of feeling we have pleased, want to do more to please.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting, by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Success is neither magical or mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. quotes
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
By asking the question " How can I afford it ? " your brain is put to work.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.
To catch lots of fish, you must first go to the water. To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
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.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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.
An army of a thousand is easy to find, but, ah, how difficult to find a general.
People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Be like the turtle. If he didn't stick his neck out, he wouldn't get anywhere at all.
You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.
The best things in life are not things.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
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
Why hesitate? Upon the plains of hesitation are the bleached bones of countless millions, who on the threshold of victory sat down to wait, and in waiting they died.
When your self-worth goes up, your net worth goes up with it.
Never say more than is necessary.
It's just about playing fundamental, physical football and playing a full 60 minutes. And no matter what's going on at the moment, being able to keep the blinders on and keep moving forward.
The chances are that you have already come to believe that happiness is unattainable. But men have attained it. And they have attained it by realizing that happiness does not spring from the procuring of physical or mental pleasure, but from the development of reason and the adjustment of conduct to principles.
Never Quit.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
Anything that makes you weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
But we can not avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
The leader has a clear idea of what he wants to do -- professionally and personally -- and the strength to persist in the face of setbacks, even failures.
Laughter is the best medicine.
The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
Love - the feeling - is a fruit of love, the verb.
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest.
Just smiling can do wonders for your attitude
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
Wisdom is not like money to be tied up and hidden.
You are never a loser until you quit trying.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.
Let's not just transform those in need, we can also find ways to help transform those in power.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
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.
The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Security is a kind of death.
Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence , see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence we need silence to be able to touch souls.
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else.
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved.
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
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is.
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do today.
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Do it now !
What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
Ability is sexless.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
If we are to achieve results never before accomplished, we must expect to employ methods never before attempted.
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.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.