Inspirational Quotes
Doomed are the hotheads ! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, ''I'm sorry. ''
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - it goes on.
One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly, all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you -- suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, "Well, I'll have a go, too''.
The person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it is committing another mistake.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.
Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way, and never again.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesud. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules whose would you use ?
Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.
You control your future, your destiny. What you think about comes about. By recording your dreams and goals on paper, you set in motion the process of becoming the person you most want to be. Put your future in good hands -- your own.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
"Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance."
I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live. Our friends and fellow-workers die off from us.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.
"It's Pretty Cool" - on winning Super Bowl XLVII.
Don't sweat the small stuff.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
It is my principle that the will of the majority should always prevail.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it is all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you are willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you are willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you have got the essential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I... I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Leadership - The art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
If a profound gulf separates my neighbor's belief from mine, there is always the golden bridge of tolerance.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
All work is empty save when there is love.
If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If a man does more than is required of him, he is a free man.
The glow of inspiration warms us, it is a holy rapture.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
I never worry about action, but only about inaction.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
The foundation my parents laid down with our faith continues to be my core.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken.
Private victories precede public victories. You can't invert that process any more than you can harvest a crop before you plant it.
Believe that the loose ball that you are chasing has your name on it.
Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.
Just because you make a mistake doesnt mean you are a mistake.
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- never knowing.
When you come to the edge of all the light you know and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen. There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.
If you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
You will never find time for anything. You must make it.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally 'being lived'. They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time, and it annoys the pig
Things do not change we change.
Our first journey is to find that special place for us.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way.
All great truths are simple in final analysis, and easily understood ; if they are not, they are not great truths.
Only after you challenge your biases and stereotypes -- what Francis Bacon called the 'idols which beset men's minds' --can you help others do the same.
Concentration of wealth and power has been built upon other people's money, other people's business, other people's labor. Under this concentration, independent business has been a menace to American society.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Most of the exercise I get is from standing and walking around laboratory tables all day. I derive more benefit and entertainment from this than some of my friends and competitors get from playing games like golf.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
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.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see the possibilities -- they're always there.
Every person who wins in any undertaking must be willing to cut all sources of retreat. Only by doing so can one be sure of maintaining that state of mind known as a burning desire to win -- essential to success.
Where there's life, there's hope.
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Always mistrust a subordinate who never finds fault with his superior.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
When you drop a pebble into a pool of water, the pebble starts a series of ripples that expand until they encompass the whole pool. This is exactly what will happen when I give my ideas a definite plan of action. Right now I can project my thoughts into the future. I can see ahead of me. I dream, I am not easily discouraged, readily visualize myself as overcoming obstacles, winning out over setbacks, achieving impossible objectives.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart the best brain.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.