Inspirational Quotes
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
Live life with passion.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
You really can change the world if you care enough.
You can have everything in life you want if you'll just help enough other people get what they want.
The hero is no braver than the ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer
Never spend your money before you have it.
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves.
Friendship is not born of words alone.
An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
The best leader brings out the best in those he has stewardship over.
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.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
A good idea is never lost. Even though its originator or possessor may die, it will someday be reborn in the mind of another.
Fathers are like a lighthouse when there is fog his children can always depend on seeing the light.
Success based on anything but internal fulfillment is bound to be empty. - Dr
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not
Be strong ! You talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid ! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it ! There is salvation only for the brave. "None but the brave deserves the fair". None but the bravest deserves salvation.
It is love that makes the impossible possible.
Great men are not always wise.
The past does not equal the future.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
From Freud we learned that the past exists now in the person. Now we must learn, from growth theory and self-actualization theory that the future also now exists in the person in the form of ideals, hopes, duties, tasks, plans, goals, unrealized potentials, mission, fate, destiny, etc. One for whom no future exists is reduced to the concrete, to hopelessness, to emptiness.
Men stumble over the truth from time to time but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.
There are two kinds of failures. The man who will do nothing he is told, and the man who will do nothing else.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.
Play for more than you can afford to lose and you will learn the game.
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one. They promised to take our land, and they did.
It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear, about two nothing can be done, so it's no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
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.
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
Anyone who thinks the sky is the limit, has limited imagination.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
We shall neither fail nor falter, we shall not weaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Great minds have purpose, while others just have wishes.
Live life to the fullest.
When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
There's no such thing as not enough time if you're doing what you want to do.
The show must go on.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them ?
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Look up and not down, look forward and not back, look out and not in, and lend a hand.
Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.
Happiness is not pleasure, it is victory.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
There is something inside all of us that yearns not for reason but for mystery, not for penetrating clear thought but for the whisperings of the irrational, not for science but for wizardry disguised as science, not for rationally founded influence but for magic.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
There is no luck except where there is discipline.
Make no mistake, my friend, it takes more than money to make men rich.
To be a leader, you must stand for something, or fall for anything.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
There's always a way - if you're committed.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first.
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
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.
Our life is what it is as a result of how we think.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
No man is wise enough by himself.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
When I was a young man, I found out that if you hurt somebody, they'll leave you alone. When I tried to leave everybody alone and just do my own thing, everybody just wanted to hurt me. Until one day I just decided, well, I've had enough of this picking. And there were like six young men still figuring they were going to mess with my head. And we went to war. To their surprise, I was no longer taking the beating, I was giving it.
You see things and you say, why ? But I dream things that never were and say, why not ?
Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.