Inspirational Quotes
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. Nothing really matters except what you do now in this instant of time. From this moment onwards you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed.
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.
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
If your ship doesn't come in, swim out to it.
No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
There's no abiding success without commitment.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not, unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not, the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.
To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.
Failures don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
The battle is all over except the "shouting" when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.
When you work, work, and when you play, play, dont get the two mixed up
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
Losers make promises they often break. Winners make commitments they always keep.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
When we place blame, we give away our power.
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday'', that person can not say, "I choose otherwise''.
We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a personal god, a savior or a prophet to do everything for us. Long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from god, fear remains with us, but when we know ourselves to be the one, fear goes, of what can we be afraid ?
Motivation is like food for the brain. You can not get enough in one sitting. It needs continual and regular refills.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
They can because they think they can.
The positive thinker is a hard-headed, tough-minded, and factual realist. He sees all the difficulties clearly... which is more than can be said for the average negative thinker. But he sees more than difficulties -- he tries to see the solutions of those difficulties.
Even though I am nearly deaf, I seem to be gifted with a kind of inner hearing which enables me to detect sounds and noises which the ordinary person does not hear.
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the divinity already in man.
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
Luck is when opportunity knocks, and you answer.
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the Stern Fact, the Sad Self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want at the moment.
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
'Wake Me When It's Funny'
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
The show must go on.
The truth is more important than the facts.
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.
Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Ask nothing, want nothing in return. Give what you have to give, it will come back to you, but do not think of that now.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
The ancestor of every action is a thought.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Four steps to achievement : plan purposely, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.
Whether or not we realize it each of us has within us the ability to set some kind of example for people. Knowing this would you rather be the one known for being the one who encouraged others, or the one who inadvertently discouraged those around you ?
A Native American grandfather was talking to his grandson about how he felt. He said, 'I feel as if I have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the vengeful, violent one, the other wolf is the loving compassionate one.' The grandson asked him, 'Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?' The grandfather answered, 'The one I feed.'
Truth fears no questions.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
Every choice one makes either expands or contracts the area in which he can make and implement future decisions. When one makes a choice, he irrevocably binds himself to the consequences of that choice.
The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
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.
From his neck down a man is worth a couple of dollars a day, from his neck up he is worth anything that his brain can produce.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk backwards.
Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Don't quit.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air
An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
I am both pleased but astonished by the fact that mankind has not yet begun to use all the means and devices that are available for destruction. I hope that such weapons are never manufactured in quantity.
When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.
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.
Success is not to be pursued ; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.
Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
You will become as small as your controlling desire ; as great as your dominant aspiration.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.