Inspirational Quotes
We do our best that we know how at the moment, and if it doesn't turn out, we modify it.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
People who are afraid to fail can never experience the joys of success.
Never give an order that can't be obeyed.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Misfortunes, untoward events, lay open, disclose the skill of a general, while success conceals his weakness, his weak points.
A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilizationWithout it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
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.
True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.
There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda and woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.
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.
The unique ability to take decisive action while maintaining focus on the ultimate mission is what defines a true leader.
We more frequently fail to face the right problem than fail to solve the problem we face.
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.
Adventure is worthwhile.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
There is nothing as remarkable as learning how to think better.
We can let circumstances rule us, or we can take charge and rule our lives from within
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it.
We are made for loving. If we don't love, we will be like plants without water.
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.
When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us.
Goals are the fuel in the furnace of achievement.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
Knowledge work is all about how we use one another's time and attention. Given just minutes, good leaders can affect how we think, what we decide, and, ultimately, what we create.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time.
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you can not do.
We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls.
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
I light my candle from their torches.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.
One who seeks no friends is his own enemy.
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 soul is covered with the color of its leisure thoughts.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
What we can or can not do, what we consider possible or impossible, is rarely a function of our true capability. It is more likely a function of our beliefs about who we are.
It is the very essence of good leadership to give away all credit for positive achievement, to identify only team goals and always to refer to them as such.
It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
Happiness consists of a solid faith, good health, and a bad memory.
To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true.
We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
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 ?
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.
Authentic leaders have absorbed the fundamental fact of existence -- that you can't get around life's inherent contradictions. The leadership mind is spacious. It has ample room for the ambiguities of the world, for conflicting feelings, and for contradictory ideas. I believe that the central leadership attribute is the ability to manage polarity.
We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
Find something you love to do and you'll never have to work a day in your life.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.
Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any mans power. But to decide to whom to give it, and how large, and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in any mans power nor an easy matter
I think therefore I am
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
The mind is a lousy master but a wonderful servant.
Our intentions create our reality.
There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group, there is less competition there.
First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do.
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers gardens.
No general can fight his battles alone. He must depend upon his lieutenants, and his success depends upon his ability to select the right man for the right place.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
Admission of ignorance is often the first step in our education.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
The world belongs to the energetic.
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Talent does you no good unless it's recognized by someone else.