Inspirational Quotes
Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be a revelation.
There are no perfect human beings ! My personal judgments are that no perfect human being is possible or even conceivable, but that human beings are far more improvable than most people believe.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
A smile is a light in the window of the soul indicating that the heart is at home.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
You have the power to think what you want. No matter what the circumstance.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
The broadest, and maybe the most meaningful definition of volunteering - Doing more than you have to because you want to, in a cause you consider good.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail ?
The very use of the word savage, as it is applied in its general sense, I am inclined to believe is an abuse of the word, and the people to whom it is applied.
Don't wait for a funeral to pay a compliment. You may not make it in time.
There are two things to aim at in life, first, to get what you want, and after that to to enjoy it.
A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.
Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
Live life with passion.
Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.
I assume everybody thinks they're a top-five quarterback. I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
The worst thing you can try to do is cling to something that is gone, or to recreate it.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
Virtuous and wise he was, but not severe , He still remember'd that he once was young.
Action without study is fatal. Study without action is fatal. Mary Beard Actions speak louder than words.
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality in your own mind.
The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word coeur, meaning ''heart''. Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values whither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
Peace can not be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer.
Some people dream of success while others wake up and work hard at it.
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.
My experience has taught me that a man who has no vices has damned few virtues.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
If it is to be it is up to me.
Good fortune and bad are equally necessary to man, to fit him to meet the contingencies of this life.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
Adventure is worthwhile.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often far more accurate than you are willing to believe.
You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
A ship is safe in harbor, but thats not what ships are for.
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.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body. The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
You're as old as you behave.
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Minds are like parachutes, they function only when open.
Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
Dreams are the reality of tomorrow.
Having all the money in the world isn't much good if you can hardly get out of bed in the morning to enjoy it
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
We have to go back to philosophy to treat things as they are. We are suffering from our own karma. It is not the fault of god. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should god be blamed ?
To gain more abundance a person needs more skills and needs to be more creative and cooperative.
Truth fears no questions.
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
Know thyself.
Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
You only get out what you put in.
Life is too short to ponder the "what if's " and fear rejection.
I'd rather see a sermon than hear one any day , I'd rather have one walk beside me than merely point the way.
I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't it's almost a cinch you won't. Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man, but sooner or later the man who wins is the one who thinks he can.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.
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.
The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
No matter how big government gets, and no matter how many services it provides, it can never take the place of volunteers.
The book you don't read cant help.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Where there is no vision, the people perish.
You must motivate yourself every day.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
We are limited but we can push back the borders of our limitations.