Inspirational Quotes
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
Unfortunately, most of the students in martial art are conformers. The student seldom learns to depend upon himself for expression. Instead, he faithfully or blindly follows an instructor, the authority figure, and his instructor's imposed pattern. That way, the student feels he is no longer alone and finds security in mass imitation. However, what is nurtured is the dependent mind rather than independent inquiry, which is so essential to genuine understanding. So through daily conditioning a student will probably be skilled according to a pattern, however, he will not come to understand himself.
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
When something is finally obvious that should have been obvious years before, we call it common sense.
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We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience.
Live your life and forget your age.
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
You could unwrap a Fudgesicle at the first light and never touch the brake lever till you threw away the stick.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above them.
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.
All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
It takes a strong fish to swim against the current. Even a dead one can float with it.
Ideas... they have the power
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
You must tolerate that which you can not change.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
Leadership does not always wear the harness of compromise.
Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, working together is success.
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
Watch people do their most common actions, these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Do not wait for ideal circumstances, nor for the best opportunities, they will never come.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
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.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Without the human community one single human being cannot survive.
Wisdom is supreme , therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you , embrace her and she will honor you. Wise men speak because they have something to say, fools because they have to say something.
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
The ready back gets all the loads.
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
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.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
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 critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer.
Character can not be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved
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.
If you would create something, you must be something.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
We do what we must, and call it by the best names.
Advice after the mischief is like medicine after death.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
Take a watch to pieces and examine, however carefully, its separate parts in turn, and you will never come across the principles by which the watch keeps time.
Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Life is what you make it.
Things do not change we change.
No pain, No gain.
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.
Knowledge is proud that she knows so much , Wisdom is humble that she knows no more.
He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
No one is more definite about the solution than the one who doesn't understand the problem.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
Dependent people need others to get what they want. Independent people can get what they want through their own efforts. Interdependent people combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, " What's in it for me ? ".
Great men are not always wise.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.