Inspirational Quotes
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.
Be loyal to people in their absence. Then watch how others begin having more faith and confidence in you, because they know you won't be talking about them behind their backs.
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.
If there is something to gain and nothing to lose by asking, by all means ask !
We imagine that our mind in a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary, our mind itself is the principal element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space.
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
History does nothing , it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.
Effective people are not problem-minded , they're opportunity-minded. They feed opportunities and starve problems.
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.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
The thing I lose patience with the most is the clock. Its hands move too fast.
For things to change you've got to change. Otherwise, nothing much will change
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity.
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can.
The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.
Remember the difference between a boss and a leader a boss says "Go ! '' -- a leader says "Let's go ! ''
He that would be a leader must be a bridge.
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 ?
We are like tea bags - we don't know our own strength until we're in hot water.
A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
Hunker down.
Great minds have purpose, others have wishes.
Where can we go to find god if we cannot see him in our own hearts and in every living being.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not.
Tolerance can lead to learning something.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
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.
Success doesn't come to you, you go to it.
It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.
We have a problem. ''Congratulations. '' But it's a tough problem. ''Then double congratulations. ''
There are two ways of meeting difficulties you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.
Whoever is open, loyal, true ; of humane and affable demeanour, honourable himself, and in his judgement of others, faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man... .such a man is a true gentleman.
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
You are made from the same energy source that has created the oceans, the forests, the mountains, the valleys and all the stars in the sky. So tell me again, why you don't have the strength and power to create whatever you desire?
Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
The buck stops here.
Everything is created twice -- first mentally, then physically.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
Someday when I grow up, finish school and get a job, I'll start living my life the way I want someday after the mortgage is paid off, the finances are on track and the kids are grown up, I'll drive that new car and take exciting trips abroad someday, now that I'm 9 about to retire, I'll buy that beautiful motor home and travel across this great country, and see all there is to see someday.
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
Our real problem is not our strength today ; it is rather the vital necessity of action today to ensure strength tomorrow.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Just because something does n't do what you planned it to do in the first place doesn't mean it's useless.
I love Ray, and I love how he always spoke from the heart, but if you listened to those speeches, a lot of them didn't even make sense. He meant everything he was saying, but I didn't know what he was talking about 90 percent of the time.
You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
We must never be afraid to go too far, for success lies just beyond.
Reflection doesn't take anything away from decisiveness, from being a person of action. In fact, it generates the inner toughness that you need to be an effective person of action -- to be a leader. Think of leadership as some of two vectors competence: (your specialty, your skills, your know-howl) and authenticity: (your identity, your character, your attitude) .
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
They alone live, who live for others.
Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
Honesty is the best image.
So many fail because they don't get started -- they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
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.
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
If our thoughts and hopes are elsewhere, it is impossible to set our faces steadily toward the work required of us.
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Hatred stirreth up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
Why not go out on a limb ? Isn't that where the fruit is ?
All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm which is in your power to do and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you.
It's never too late to be what you might have been.
To love what you do and feel that it matters, how on earth could anything be more fun !
If money helps a man to do good to others, it is of some value , but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
Friends are made by many acts and lost by only one.
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Procrastination is the thief of time.
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.
The more often a man feels without acting, the less he'll be able to act. And in the long run, the less he'll be able to feel.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.
A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.
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.