Inspirational Quotes
Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline.
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.
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is still willing to learn more.
Do not wait ; the time will never be "just right". Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.
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.
Whatever you are be a good one.
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Change yourself, change your fortunes.
With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
You may have to fight a battle more than once to win.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
He who stops being better stops being good.
Without a general an army is lost.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
You can not do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
The time is always right to do what is right.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
Live Well... Laugh Often... Love Much.
The beauties of the world are best seen by those who strive to reach them.
Everyone should carefully observe which way his heart draws him, and then choose that way with all his strength.
The man who fears no truths has nothing to fear from lies.
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.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask.
People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care.
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.
This above all, To Thine Own Self Be True.
The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
I am quite correctly described as 'more of a sponge than an inventor'.
Spoken about by, radio announcer and good friend : never let a day go by that he didn't learn something new and, in turn pass it on to others. It was his consuming passion.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to ; all they need is one reason why they can.
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
You are what you repeatedly do. Excellence is not an event - it is a habit.
Success is the proper utilization of failure.
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have, if we didn't spend half of our time wishing.
The glue that holds all relationships together -- including the relationship between the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
In love beggar and king are equal.
When you face your fear, most of the time you will discover that it was not really such a big threat after all. We all need some form of deeply rooted, powerful motivation - it empowers us to overcome obstacles so we can live our dreams.
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.
Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire -- you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
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.
The mind has exactly the same power as the hands, not merely to grasp the world, but to change it
He who lends to the poor gets his interest from God.
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.
By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger.
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
Love is blind, friendship closes its eyes.
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. His eyes are closed.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade.
The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain.
Alone we can do so little, together we can do so much.
There is only one person who could ever make you happy, and that person is you.
What can be said but not practiced is better not said. What can be practiced but not spoken of is better not done.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
Learning acquired in youth is an inscription on stone.
To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself : First, what could I do ? Second, what could I read ? And third, who could I ask ?
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
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.
Every leader needs to have experienced and grown through following -- learning to be dedicated, observant, capable of working with and learning from others, never servile, always truthful. Having located these qualities in himself, he can encourage them in others.
Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.
The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.
If a man does his best, what else is there ?
Are you bored with life ? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
Most people resist change, so a key part of innovating is convincing other people that your idea is a good one -- by enlisting their help, and, in doing so, by helping them see the usefulness of the idea.
How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.
You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.
I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream.
To be a great leader and so always master of the situation, one must of necessity have been a great thinker in action. An eagle was never yet hatched from a goose's egg.
Some of us have great runways already built for us. If you have one, take off. But if you don't have one, realize it is your responsibility to grab a shovel and build one for yourself and for those who will follow after you.
Strike while the iron is hot.