Inspirational Quotes
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning, they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life.
The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey , they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them.
In order to be walked on, you have to be lying down.
"I am the thread that runs through all these pearls", and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and god is the thread that runs through all of them, most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
I just love when people say I cant do something because all my life people said I wasn't going to make it.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
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.
Hard work often leads to success. No work seldom does.
Feel the fear and do it anyway.
God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically.
The truth is that we can learn to condition our minds, bodies, and emotions to link pain or pleasure to whatever we choose. By changing what we link pain and pleasure to, we will instantly change our behaviors.
Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary : impossible.
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive at
Little strokes fell great oaks.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Pep without purpose is piffle.
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed, but not defeated.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
if one is unable to assert oneself, one is unable to participate in a genuine relationship.
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.
Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.
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.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
To live happily with other people, ask of them only what they can give.” Tristan Bernard
No man ever became great without many and great mistakes.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance, is a celebration of that miracle.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
No one knows what he can do until he tries.
Your neighbor's vision is as true for him as your own vision is true for you.
I do not resent criticism, even when, for the sake of emphasis, it parts for the time with reality.
Great and glorious events which dazzle the beholder are represented by politicians as the outcome of grand designs whereas they are usually products of temperaments and passions.
Only the educated are free.
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.
Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
If you aren't going all the way, why go at all ?
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Joy is the feeling of grinning inside.
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
One sure-fire way to stay creative force yourself to learn something new.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
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.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others, let others have their own way, do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs.
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
The past does not equal the future.
Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.
Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat. Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them.
The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole.
People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.
Use what talent you possess, the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Wealth is the product of man's ability to think.
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness.
We must be the change we wish to see.
A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
There is no one giant step that does it. It's a lot of little steps.
Adversity is wont to reveal genius, prosperity to hide it.
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
A mature man is his own judge. In the end, his only form of support is being faithful to his own convictions. The advice of others may be welcomed invaluable, but it does not free him from responsibility.
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If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
How a man plays a game shows something of his character, how he loses shows all of it.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity ; whenever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable. They go together.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Never complain about what you permit.
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
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 important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.