Inspirational Quotes
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
A teacher, a really good teacher, is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to truth. Therefore, a good teacher, or, more appropriately, a guide, studies each student individually and helps to awaken the student to explore himself, both internally and externally, and ultimately to integrate himself with his being. All in all, a teacher acts as a catalyst, and not only must he have a tremendous understanding; he must also possess a sensitive mind with great flexibility and adaptability.
The way to happiness : keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
Are you fit company for the person you wish to become ?
Desire, ignorance, and inequality, this is the trinity of bondage.
There is no pleasure in life equal to that of the conquest of a vicious habit.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now that I understand the art, a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.
If we always look back, we lose sight of what's ahead.
The greater the obstacle the more glory.
The Crows are very handsome and gentlemanly Indians in their personal appearance and have been always reputed, since the first acquaintance made with them, very civil and friendly.
You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as well as labor does the body.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
Keys to success : Research your ideas, plan for success, expect success, and just do it.
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to the which also ye are called in one body, and be yet thankful.
Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Knowing is not enough we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.
Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant, they is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Words do two major things : They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
For children to take morality seriously they must be in the presence of adults who take morality seriously. And with their own eyes they must see adults take morality seriously.
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
Men spend their lives in anticipations, in determining to be vastly happy at some period when they have time. But the present time has one advantage over every otherit is our own. Past opportunities are gone, future have not come. We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine , but if we defer the tasting of them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
Make the second effort your second nature.
The oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
What we see depends mainly on what we look for.
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.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
We must all suffer one of two things : the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
Reach for the stars.
Many have encountered and overcome the challenge of homelessness Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.
When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
You can not shake hands with a clenched fist.
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.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy : true fulfillment.
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. Philip Brooks Children are the reward of life.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
What a great feeling to look back on what you've already climbed What a man really wants is creative challenge with sufficient skills to bring him within the reach of success so that he may have the expanding joy of achievement.
Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
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.
If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.
It's always too soon to quit !
A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
Deep down inside of all of us is the power to accomplish what we want to, if we'll just stop looking elsewhere.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man adapts the world to himself. All progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
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.
I'm going to stop procrastinating once I get around to it.
The time to make friends is before you need them.
Commit yourself to a dream nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why ? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle -- he defeated the fear of trying.
I think there is something, more important than believing : Action ! The world is full of dreamers, there aren't enough who will move ahead and begin to take concrete steps to actualize their vision.
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.
With vision, every person, organization and country can flourish. The Bible says, 'Without vision we perish.
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
Never giving up and pushing forward will unlock all the potential we are capable of.
If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the the universe.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.
Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
People are where they are because that's exactly where they really want to be. . . whether they'll admit that or not
If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x ; y is play ; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent.
The first and greatest commandment is, Don't let them scare you.
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
Ideas become powerful only if they appear in the flesh , an idea which does not lead to action by the individual and by groups remains at best a paragraph or a footnote in a book -- provided the idea is original and relevant. It is like a seed stored in a dry place. If the idea is to have influence, it must be put into the soil, and the soil is people and groups of people.
This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure.
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.
We don't live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
Look back on times of adversity with hope for the future, not regret for the past. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
What you can do, or dream you can, begin it, boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
It is impossible to imagine anything which better becomes a ruler than mercy.
Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Practice makes perfect.