Inspirational Quotes
The ready back gets all the loads.
Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
The sun will come up tomorrow
Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again.
What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail ?
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice. No paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
I do not believe in styles anymore. I do not believe that there is such a thing as the Chinese way of fighting or the Japanese way of fighting, or any other way of fighting, because unless a human being has three arms and four legs, there can be no different form of fighting. To me, ultimately, martial art means honestly expressing yourself.
It had always amazed me how different things looked in a studio compared to how they appeared on TV. In reality the set was a tiny stage in a giant room of cables, cameras, and monitors, all connected trounced a control room full of other monitors and audio equipment. On TV it looked like two people sitting in an office having a conversation.
Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there.
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.
The great accomplishments of man have resulted from the transmission of ideas and enthusiasm.
What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction.
Motherhood qualified me to let the child within come out and play.
Remember when you see a man at the top of a mountain, he didn't fall there.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.
It is no use saying "we are doing our best". You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
Nature never deceives us, it is we who deceive ourselves.
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Pay no attention to what the critics say , no statue has ever been erected to a critic.
No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
You don't just stumble into the future you create your own future.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.
No fate is worse than a life without a love.
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 ?
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, begin it now.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
If we are to have real peace, we must begin with the children.
A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
Real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves.
Life's blows can not break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.
There are few people who can manage more than their own business.
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them. The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
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.
Where there is love there is no darkness.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
Obstacles are those frightful things you can see when you take your eyes off your goal.
We don't stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing.
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
Everything in the world we want to do or get done, we must do with and through people.
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
It's not what you've got, it's what you use that makes a difference.
Opportunities multiply as they are seized ; they die when neglected. Life is a long line of opportunities.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
Attitude is everything.
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it with all of your heart.
Every hand does its part to hold up the world. Every healthy individual guides his life by a selected motive which takes precedence over all the others. He is the man who maintains his integrity in the midst of change, his individuality in the face of external pressures to conform.
One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
There are no mistakes, save one, the failure to learn from a mistake.
The best way to predict the future is to create it.
If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least ten times.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
You have available to you, right now, a powerful supercomputer. This powerful tool has been used through-out history to take people from rags to riches, from poverty and obscurity to success and fame, from unhappiness and frustration to joy and self-fulfillment, and it can do the same for you.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
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 ?
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
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.
Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
Besides the short catnaps I take each day, I average about four to five hours of sleep per night.
He who speaks the loudest is the least heard.
My friends are my estate.
When were the good and the brave ever in a majority ?
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time , it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.
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.
The rare individual who honestly satisfies this heart-hunger ( praise ) will hold people in the palm of his hand, and even the undertaker will be sorry when he dies.
Joy can be real only if people look on their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.